Word: status
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...recurring rashes on his skin kept him apart, drove his attention inward: "You are forced to the mirror, again and again; psoriasis compels narcissism, if we can suppose a Narcissus who did not like what he saw." One of the hallmarks of his fiction became elaborate celebrations of the status quo. Updike thinks he knows why: "An overvaluation of the normal went with my ailment, a certain idealization of everyone who was not, as I felt myself to be, a monster...
...most sensitive issues for the black middle class is its relationship to the ghetto poor. University of Chicago sociologist William Julius Wilson has elaborated a persuasive theory suggesting that the worsening status of the underclass is inextricably tied to the flight from the inner city of most of its upwardly mobile black population. Its departure not only deprived poor youngsters of successful role models but also knocked the props from under churches, schools and other neighborhood institutions that provided stability and support for the impoverished. Middle-class flight, together with economic shifts that have resulted in a dearth...
...avoid that problem, the CUE decided to extend sophomore status to candidates who have "satisfactorily completed one semester and are enrolled in the second semester of a foreign language...
...until next year, the women's squash team can only dream of further success. Until next year, it can only dream of re-playing Princeton. And until next year; it can only dream of regaining its 1987 status as the number one team in the nation...
Women could not work with men, fewer than half of Hispanics owned land and the work was seasonal. As a result, women could not find jobs and lost their economic status and equal role in their society. "The women were no longer bosses. They were dependents," Deutsch said...