Word: upper-class
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...hook, then lets him off. Instead of savaging him as he deserves, she plays plot games with the side question: Will the antiadultery adulterer get caught? Or else she putters about with the stock characters of English comedy: a gossip columnist straight out of Evelyn Waugh, a giddy old upper-class biddy of the sort invariably played by Margaret Rutherford...
Next to the cost of the house itself, the single biggest family expense for many middle-and upper-class Americans is the furniture and decoration that go to make the house a home. Nor is it any longer a once-in-a-life-time investment. "Forty years ago, you furnished a home and were done with it," notes Robert Lauter, vice president of Manhattan's R. H. Macy Co. Today, one out of five families changes residence every year, and it is a common pattern for a married couple to start off in a small apartment, move...
...colleges are consummating liaisons with nearby male universities or otherwise abandoning the single life. Latest is Sarah Lawrence, in Bronxville, N.Y., which last week announced that it is going coeducational. The opening of the spring term will find six male students among the 580 Sarah Lawrence women. All are upper-class transfers from such men's colleges as Amherst, Haverford and Yale. Up to 25 more male transfers will be admitted next September...
Recently, the middle and upper-class escape has been selectively blocked. The major means for avoiding military service until after the 26-year cut-off, graduate school deferments, has been threatened for all non-science students. The conservative logic runs as follows: A particular cultural approach--in this case, technological, specialized, scientific--has led to America's position of political and economic power in the world. In order to maintain and further that position, the same attitude must be enforced by the SSS on this generation to ensure the future of our nation...
...working farmer's son rapidly becomes a certified adult. Until recently, puberty occurred at about 14 or 15, marriage two or three years later. The word "teenager" was inconceivable for such 17-year-old adults as Joan of Arc or Surveyor George Washington. In the 18th century, many upper-class Englishmen impressively taught their eldest sons at home; in stressing adult concerns as well as academics, they took Locke's advice: "The sooner you treat him as a man, the sooner he will...