Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Didion phrase, in groups I am usually "neurotically inarticulate." The compliment was undeserved and I was embarassed at what I sensed was a condescending attitude. Any suspicions I might have had were swiftly confirmed a few minutes later. Picking up again her main themes of the constricting conditions of class, sex and race and their effect on writers, she apparently thought she was losing people's attention. Weary of the vertiginous heights of the merely abstract, she decided to provide everyone with a small object lesson: she inclined her head towards me and said pointedly in voice too loud...
...this kind of disillusionment. As a freshman at my over-whelmingly white, exclusive private school, I took a course in a dry subject with the wittiest and most amusing teacher there. Like everyone else, I secretly adored him and desperately wanted to talk to him after class. Near term's end I finally got up the courage to approach him with a question. Within minutes he had broached the subject of sickle cell anemia. At fourteeen, I was completely paralyzed with humiliation. For a split-second I wanted not to be black. I wanted not to be black, because then...
Bayliss's class was little consolation, however, to a team that had just seen its hopes for an unbeaten season shattered by a determined Navy squad...
...know if there have been many complaints about the Class of '54 reunion comittee's nudie poster, but I would like to assure your readers that there are many women (and men) who find it offensive. Messrs. Arnold, Strauss and Hill may not acknowledge it, but I submit that they chose an unzipped female figure for their poster to create a leering, sophomoric tone which they thought would attract their 45 year-old-plus classmates back to the scene of their frisky undergraduate lives...
Imagine the outcry if the Radcliffe Class of '54 used an undressed male figure on its reunion posters. We all know that a Radcliffe class wouldn't do such a thing because it is not acceptable in this society for women to publicly and routinely degrade and humiliate men sexually...