Word: classe
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflects her maidservant twice, filling much of the frame with her image. Very little of the rest of the room appears, and although the space over her shoulder is quite deep, this depth gives us no idea of the order of the place, although her femininity and high social class have been very strongly established by the objects and furniture. All the details of the room are there, but they give us only the feeling of the situation...
...think that because there are so many Americas, each one would broaden the perspective of the others. But it hasn't worked that way. The urbane upper-middle class of the coasts ridicules Nixon's mumbling about the silent majority. In Alabama, when a kid from a small town goes to Harvard he can never feel safe in that town again. The eyes of the haggard speechwriters and secretaries are too tired to focus on the Tobacco Road slums five blocks away from the Capitol. When we get excited because a half-million of us have gathered so close...
...might ask what they would have done if they had reached the gates of the White House, and what purpose it would have served. That is a question which can't he answered. It is enough to say that thousands of middle class youths in America in 1969 feel that proto-revolutionary activities are the only way to demonstrate their contempt for the bourgeois capitalist milien in which they have been raised...
STAUDER spent one of his summers working with Mexican Indians-an experience that sparked an interest in social anthropology. Consistently Rank List 1 or 2. Stauder graduated in 1962 (although he chose 1961 as his social class). Winning a Marshall Scholarship, he spent the next two years in Cambridge, England, studying social anthropology...
...appearances as functionaries-headwaiters, coachmen-are at once pleasantly obvious and sparked by unexpected twists which it would be criminal to reveal. Ophuls similarly keeps a sustained irony from overweighting the episodes, by employing a formal inventiveness remarkably responsive to the nuances of each situation. The subtle differences of class, age, and character of each person affords Ophuls sensitivity to social behavior full play...