Word: affluent
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...trustees of the Harvard Advocate are about to begin a fund drive designed to turn Harvard's poverty stricken literary magazine into the most affluent publication at the College...
...eighth-graders-recommended for the training by their local principals or superintendents because despite signs of roughly normal intelligence they were either failing or were at least a grade behind in reading. In fact, 80 of the boys were 31 grades behind. They come from such varied backgrounds as affluent suburbs, private schools, impoverished rural or mountain areas, and Negro slum areas in such cities as Charlotte and Durham (20% of the class is Negro...
This issue also contains, unhappily, a chapter from Dr. Graham Blaine's forthcoming book, Youth Our Affluent Society. Now here is a writer with nothing to say. I've never met Dr. Blaine, but I certainly don't like him. I wish he would keep still. His topic this time, as always, is "Sex in the College," and he offers such startling observations as: ". . . Sexual behavior in America is changing. . . Women certainly feel strong jealousy . . . Sexual appetite without specific physical arousal is not naturally as strong in women. . . The Serpent (In Eden) brought about the release of a force within...
...community colleges are also attracting more affluent youths who want to avoid the huge, impersonal, lower-division classes on the big campuses, and many who may be able enough, but not mature enough, to compete at the university level. "On a university campus, a student sinks or swims," explains Dr. William G. Dwyer, president of the Massachusetts Board of Regional Community Colleges, "but on a community college campus, we try to teach him how to swim...
...article will be part of Blaine's new book, Youth in our Affluent Society, which will probably be published in the spring...