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...work, the political and social orientations of the upwardly mobile begins to change even before they enter the higher strata--which is one of the reasons they do enter the higher strata. Except for the most unusual of an already unusual group, the upwardly mobile are eager to abandon their lower class orientations and, through a subtle process of cultural osmosis, come to completely identify with the new social environment they desire. As the Schoolboys of Barbiana would put it in their book "Letter to a Teacher": "...they are received like brothers by the rich and are soon rewarded with...
...study in the American Journal of Psychiatry, Elizabeth Reid discusses the effects of co-residential living at Harvard. In it, she says, "...both men and women [living in co-educational residences] test out their preconceived ideas of what is womanly or manly, and as a result they tend to abandon stereotyped notions. Because of the changes in the world this generation is trying to develop new styles of being men and women...Co-residential living offers many more contracts with both men and women than does the one-sex dormitory and therefore far more opportunity to consider these issues...
...erected a wall of experience between himself and Dukakis, and the tactic may have worked. The Boston Globe, which had never before endorsed a Republican for Governor, praised both men for their abilities last week, but concluded, "in these traumatic times the state should not abandon proven leadership...
...back on the separation of Harvard and Radcliffe with bemused curiosity--pondering the mystery of an era which associated so many wildly irrelevent activities to a person's genitals. But that time has not yet come. And until it does, it is tragically premature for women at Harvard to abandon their one established channel of power in the University...
Reduced Trauma. Most doctors are likely to welcome the NCI's findings on L-PAM and make wider use of the drug. But, until ways other than surgery are developed to determine whether cancers have spread to the lymph nodes, few are likely to abandon radical mastectomy for the simpler operation...