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...fear Darjeeling, which opens the New York Film Festival Sept. 28 and will play in major cities shortly thereafter, is beyond even Wilson's powers of persuasion. It's basically the story of three well-heeled guys on one of those self-help vacations that upper-class searchers took in the '60s. Go to India and get your life validated by the Maharishi. Or get good drugs at fire-sale prices. This could have ended up as a Midnight Express nightmare, except that the Whitman boys' luck is a little better, a little weirder. One of them finds romance with...
...appearances are deceiving. This onetime deputy governor of an Iraqi province and two-time author isn't garbed as a City banker in order to project upper-class Britishness, but, he says, "to show respect" to Afghans. In Stewart's latest incarnation, as President Hamid Karzai's appointed reviver of traditional Afghan architecture and crafts, earning the respect of the locals is crucial-especially because the work must take place in a war-ravaged country with no real peace on the horizon. How can preservation be achieved amid so much destruction...
...resorting to such extreme measures.The UMRP is, at its most basic level, an outreach program catered to students who, “for reasons of history and circumstance might have considered Harvard inaccessible.” Harvard, to some degree, still retains the reputation of being an elite, white, upper-class school—a stigma that belies the true vibrancy and diversity of our student body. The UMRP actively works to redress that misperception by catering to the specific cultural concerns of minority students. Unlike general concerns about social or academic life at Harvard, minority students must often consider...
Modern marketing was being invented as well. The 1840s saw the first national brands, the first department store, the first advertising agencies and the first presidential campaigns in which canny marketers refashioned upper-class candidates as rustic men of the people...
...This is the way so many adolescents cope with the changes and urges their bodies are forcing them through. But some of Apted subjects are ready to banter. The upper-class boys have added poise to their prejudices. John especially: Apted asks him, "Are you ambitious," and he says yes. "What for?" "Fame. And power." "What sort of power?" "Political power." (He says that when he joins Parliament, "I wouldn't allow any strikes.") Prodded to analyze how he's changed in seven years, John sagely replies, "One grows so slowly that one never notices." And when asked...