Word: statusful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Reach, which includes representatives of PBH, the M.I.T. social service organization, and the Cambridge Corporation, now coordinates activities primarily in Area Four of East Cambridge. "PBH might help Reach to expand to city-wide status," Profit said...
...wasn't there for that. Obviously I was lower class. I couldn't depend for my present security on status and money because I didn't have either. Doing work that was oriented toward training for the professional class was very threatening to me personally. I didn't want to train myself outside of class to work in that framework. So I didn't want to do a darn bit for school. But the Jesuits were rather disciplined and they didn't like that stuff...
...FOUND IN most of my courses that the professor's reason for giving the course and probably my fellow students' for taking the course were completely different from mine. The professor, he may have been concerned with keeping up his professional status, continuing his research--not interested in education as such but in furthering the discipline. The student taking the course may have been somebody going on to grad school in that discipline and beginning to develop a professional identification with it or it may have been somebody just cranking the grades out in the proper order for the proper...
...been moving very steadily, very smoothly up the ranks of a society of which I do not feel part. I really do not value money, do not value status, although I would enjoy having positions of status to show I am fit to handle that kind of responsibility and I would have more freedom to do as I please. But I could not take a position of influence if the only way to do it would be to perpetuate a system which in many respects I find corrupt, ineffectual, impersonal. The threat involved in keeping under the system is that...
...REASON I'm leaving is because I have less expensive tastes. I don't have to have the middle class money status and position to get by in life. I can afford not to go to college. I can feel more comfortable with a group of working class people than a group of highly-motivated kids from New York...