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...Tribal Rites. In any case, Mary McCarthy, Vassar '33, brings an insider's view to a U.S. social phenomenon unique in the English-speaking world: the college-educated woman who stays "college-centered" in a way that English upper-class boys are fixed in patterns by their public schools. The Group is a pioneer work in the anthropology of this female tribe. It describes its initiation ceremonies, its tribal rites, its system of punishment for deviation. Its appeals are neither to God nor to what used to be called prophetically "mere man," but to the group opinion...
...pours oceans of immigrant experience into a mother's tears. The Italian Lesson, beginning with Dante's "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost," exposes all the confusion, vapidity, and self-delusion that an upper-class middle-aged woman can pack into a single morning...
...letters column of the intellectual, leftist New Statesman, Christine Keeler and Marilyn ("Mandy") Rice-Davies were being analyzed in the somewhat different role as standard bearers of the proletariat. "Here was a section of working-class girls being sold as instruments to satisfy the sexual needs of the upper class," wrote Mathematician Hyman Levy, "while at the same time, there were no upper-class girls being recruited to satisfy the sexual needs of the working class." Levy was ironically seconded by Teacher M. L. Swan: "With a few fortunate exceptions-gamekeepers and other comrades who have infiltrated the enemy...
...schools all over Gabon, and that the little country has 14 medical students training in France, Dr. Schweitzer merely chuckles and says of the blacks: "You cannot change their mentality." Among his six doctors and 17 nurses, there is not one African, nor is he training any. Says an upper-class African in Lambaréné: "I'd rather die unattended than be humiliated at Dr. Schweitzer's hospital...
...essence of Cornell is freedom," gloats one professor. "You're king of your classroom." Student life is equally free; attendance is not taken after freshman year and upper-class drinking in rooms is unrestricted. The student guidebook even recommends "sour hour" at a local tavern noted for TGIF parties ("Thank goodness it's Friday"). As in White's "godless" day, Cornell still has no religion department. As campus speakers, it welcomes not only