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...studied Mexican history over the past two years in my concentration and had been particularly interested in the government regulation of lowerclass peoples. For that reason I had travelled to the nation's capital to look up information for my thesis on the rules that bound prostitutes of the early 20th century. I was also interested, however, in learning about the one of the most stable political systems in Latin America, and to see how it held power during elections, which were only two weeks away...
...ORTON was an outrageous homosexual playwright from lowerclass Leicester who lived for 15 years in a one-room flat with his one-time mentor, sometime lover and eventual murderer, Kenneth Halliwell. Precocious as a youth growing up in the 1950s, by the mid-1960s Orton was a rising star in British theater. His daring and almost obscene plays challenged stodgy British society and caught the imagination of forward thinking Englishmen--he even was commissioned to write a screenplay for the Beatles. Revelling in his homosexuality, Orton pursued an endless number of anonymous sexual encounters in public bathrooms, abandoned houses, subway...
...usual discussion of social inequality by stressing he military effects of an all-poor army. "I think the mixture of middle-class men had a real modulating effect," he quotes one expert as saying. "It made it much easier to sustain discipline. It was nice for a lowerclass kid to outmarch a college grad. They can't do that anymore, because the college kids aren't there." And more than nice--a representative military helped America to see its defenders as honorable, not unfortunate, and perhaps made the country more reluctant to go hastily to war. Fallows' prescription is simple...
...analysis, Banfield maintains that their plight lies, essentially, neither in discrimination nor lack of income, but in their class outlook: they are rigidly present-minded and they do not want to postpone immediate pleasure in order to secure some future gain. In this respect, they are no different from lowerclass whites, who show the same behavior patterns: a tendency to violence, a dislike of steady work, an inability to maintain a stable family. Even if all blacks in America turned white overnight, contends Banfield, their problems would not change much because they are basically problems of class...
Swarthmore attracts few rich students, prep school products or Roman Catholics, and only 12% of the students are Quakers. More often, it lures "faculty brats"-a fourth of the lowerclass-men's parents are school and college teachers. Though endowment is a relatively modest $33 million (market value), scholarships are generous-26% of the students get an average $1,000 a year...