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...textile town near the Alabama border, a white parent complains bitterly about the poor education her children are receiving. Then she adds: "I can't afford the private academy, so all I can do is try to find some way to help upgrade the teachers." A student at upper-class Northside High School in Atlanta describes a short-lived rebellion: "We threatened to walk out when the black kids started coming here, but our parents threatened to take our cars away from us if we did." In small-town Woodbury, a black cook summed up: "If I had just...
...number of men living at Radcliffe will increase next year from 365 to 375. The remaining 660 spaces will be divided about equally between freshman women and upper-class women...
...Lucy Winslow, Loebgoers will remember, was superb in Dirty Hands. ) The worm of incest causes not only the ruin of two families and the death of both sister and brother, but also a few assorted stabbings, poisonings and eye-gougings which Ford probably threw in for his sensation-seeking upper-class audiences-though, then again, seventeenth-century. Englishmen assumed Italians were that...
...upper-class black with a $45,000 salary, Young neither shunned blunt talk when addressing white banquets nor donned a dashiki to convince his fellow blacks that he had soul. He was always an individual, difficult to classify. Young's special strength, notes a black journalist, was that "he was urbane enough to talk with the fat cats downtown and hip enough to talk with the tough cats uptown and he never seemed out of place doing either." Indeed, even some of the most bitter black spokesmen came to warmly appreciate Young. When informed of his death, Poet...
...Peter Barkin of Quincy, Jim Crump of Winthrop, John . . .," Lamar boomed in a semi-southern drawl. There was no answer. Three upper-class matches were scheduled and one freshman bout...