Word: riche
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...keep such a book on the reading list for economic reasons, he added. "A good hardback would cost $35 and that would mean the rich students could go off and buy it, but the others would scramble for the reserve copies...
...classic pattern. At one end of society are the rich, whose money buys them opportunities and whose opportunities bring them more money. At the other are the poor, caught in a downward spiral in which nothing, it seems, can come of nothing. College graduate and illiterate cannot find a common language, high liver and low achiever cannot see eye to eye. The northerners scoff at the warm passions and expansiveness of their compatriots to the south, the southerners scorn the icy rationalism and inhibitions of their countrymen to the north...
...social side of a serious business. He starts with his recollections of kings, queens and other royals. Much of it reads like a gossip column, but some of the tidbits, which would never make it into a newspaper column, are often quite revealing of cultures and attitudes of the rich. He described, for instance, a feast given for the King of Saudi Arabia...
...frustrating. At certain points--for instance when describing the Times' coverage of the Bay of Pigs--he hints at greater depth, only to pull back to describe an encounter with yet another celebrity. Still, only perhaps a Talmudic scholar could fail to enjoy the breezy gossip about the rich and famous that Daniel serves up throughout Lords, Ladies and Gentlemen. As he has forthrightly stated, "I'm not trying to prove anything, but just trying to give people a bit of pleasure...
Living at home and paying her own way, Bombeck made it through college in four years, including three sessions of summer school. The experience was not rich in what is usually thought of as college life, but she got the degree, and she did it on her own. In a second profound act of independence, she converted at 22 from the United Brethren Church to Roman Catholicism. "I saw something in it I wanted to have," she says. "There is something very soothing about the whole thing. A love of God is easier for me to accept than the fear...