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...basic structural feature is a diffuse hierarchy of power. The Berawan often talk as if they have a rigid class system with endogamous social strata, as some of their neighbors do indeed have. But the terminology of class is only borrowed and hitched onto a system of rank, which depends primarily on standing within the community and hence allows considerable mobility. In Borneo, a geneology studded with famous men of past generations and free of slaves, known reprobates and the illegitimate, makes for an aristocracy. But if the individual fails to play a part in community affairs or drinks...
...include things like urban renewal, corporate bribery and women's liberation. The sum total of all this, and the source of much of Hailey's power, is an impression that this is American life as it is lived right now, in the highest and most glamorous and least known strata of power. The air of veracity that pervades his novels must have a lot to do with why they are so popular...
...they are rare. Most of the boxes offer the spectacle of a man drenched in memory and association, reinventing the past in the full light of what modernism entailed: a formal strictness, a banishment of rhetoric and an almost unequaled power to slip down through the mind's strata...
...airplane window--seems too big and varied to be understood in a few glib paragraphs, and so all Salisbury offers is his own personal view of America, an account of one person's journey to the burning heart of the American dream. "I have not tasted all the strata of our 215,000,000 lives," he says...
...adults who read his comics, Lee says with apparent seriousness, "I do a lot of lecturing at college campuses, and my own personal survey has shown me that not only do a lot of college kids read them, but the most intelligent ones read them--those in the higher strata of college society. Of course, it would be the bright ones who are interested in fantasy and imagery and legends and stuff like that." Here he reverts to form: "I'm being very profound today." He has a succinct description of the kind of people his comics appeal to: "Those...