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Zweig

[ zwahyg, swahyg; German tsvahyk ]

noun

  1. Ar·nold [ahr, -n, uh, ld, ahr, -nawlt], 1887–1968, German novelist, essayist, and dramatist.
  2. Ste·fan [stef, -, uh, n, -ahn, shte, -fahn], 1881–1942, Austrian dramatist, critic, biographer, and novelist.


Zweig

/ tsvaik /

noun

  1. ZweigArnold18871968MGermanWRITING: novelist Arnold (ˈarnɔlt). 1887–1968, German novelist, famous for his realistic war novel The Case of Sergeant Grischa (1927)
  2. ZweigStefan18811942MAustrianWRITING: novelistTHEATRE: dramatistWRITING: essayistWRITING: poet Stefan (ˈʃtɛfan). 1881–1942, Austrian novelist, dramatist, essayist, and poet
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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"By looking only at income or lifestyle, we see the results of class, but not the origins of class," writes economist Michael Zweig in his 2011 book "The Working Class Majority."

From Salon

By that definition, Zweig says, more than 63% of Americans can be considered working class while only 35% are middle class.

From Salon

Connie Zweig first encountered her inner ageist on a cloudless spring day in Santa Monica about seven years ago.

As she began to order free samples of food, presumably because she couldn’t afford to pay, Zweig noticed a feeling of disgust rising within her.

For decades Zweig had helped people interrogate the part of their minds outside of their conscious awareness — what the 20th century psychologist Carl Jung called “the shadow.”

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