Word: classing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weighty. Trilling chooses her words so well she might be reading from her new manuscript. The emphasis on style seems picky, but Trilling is no Emily Post. Social elitism, based on knowing which knife to use for pate, she said, is silly. When used properly style can ease both class and sexual distinctions. Manners let you act without awkwardness. They force people together. "Holding the door," she said, "at least makes you acknowledge that someone else exists...
Radcliffe students could not even eat in the River Houses, Rosenblum recalls. "There is no doubt we were being treated as second-class citizens," she says. "When you had to eat lunch in the basement of Mem Church, it was a degradation." An even more pressing issue for Radcliffe women in the Yard was the lack of women's bathrooms, she adds...
Even in the late '60s, Radcliffe encouraged women to wear skirts to class and around the city. Molony says as a freshman, she was told to wear a skirt in the Cambridge Common and warned that the common could be dangerous after dark. But, she says, "My average skirt was 13 inches long." However, only the weekly formal dinners at Radcliffe actually required her to dress...
About 4200 predominantly middle class, white well wishers, who paid from $25 to $1000 for a seat, cheered as the show opened with Vegas-styled comedian Pat Henry...
...Other cadets want to become professional soldiers; a few are there simply to prove to themselves they can endure the academy, Monteverde says. If there is any factor common to most of them, it is their politics, he says: "Most cadets are rather conservative--they come form the middle class." He adds, "There are about 300 exceptions who are real mavericks," he says...