Word: upper-class
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...Faculty committee has begun investigating the entire application and selection procedures by which freshmen are placed in the nine upper-class Houses...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...
...British Empire. Even so, in an earlier era it would probably have passed unnoticed by the homeland. But in the England that Queen Victoria presided over for so long and controlled so little, democracy was on the rise. Radicals, who were demanding universal suffrage and an end to upper-class privilege, decided to make an issue of Eyre. How well they succeeded is the subject of this book...
...trade," says Manhattan's Mainbocher, and it is a simple statement of fact. At 72, the short, round little man with the synthetic name can boast that his clothes are the most carefully made, the slowest to change, and among the most expensive in the world. If the upper-class look characterizes the lines of both Mainbocher and Balenciaga, "Main's" clothes look like older money...
Such doings may sound like something the author picked up at the last sale of Waugh assets. Actually, this account of the giddy life in an upper-class club for young women in London just after V-E day is touched by a cheerful inhumanity all Muriel Spark's own. "As they realized themselves," she writes about the May of Teck Club members, "few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage...