Word: upper-class
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...privilege of spending my two upper-class years taking...things like geology and architecture and music,” he says. It was “really enriching stuff...
...Jack some sleepless nights," says I Not Stupid executive producer Daniel Yun. But Neo feels it was a necessary move: getting gags in drag was good to him, but it was time to move on. "I realized my audience is lower-class people," he says, "but there are also upper-class people who don't really like slapstick. I had to adjust. I've grown...
...undergraduate which class has the shortest straw. The answer is sure to be the sophomores. From at least reasonable dormitories in Harvard Yard, they have been moved into the unwanted rooms of the housing system—reject rooms of the upper-class lotteries. They are struggling with tutorials in the wrong concentrations, cursing the fifth-class demon of seductive overambition, pass-failing, add-dropping, withdrawing in frustration, and abandoning pre-med for The Study of Religion...
...Japanese are now shopping at second-hand stores; residents in upper-class districts comb through their neighbors' trash for used furniture. Potential entrepreneurs, the Akio Moritas of the future, are doomed to remain dreamers: the banking system is so swamped with the remembrance of debts past it doesn't have the money - or will - to help new businesses get off the drawing board. For the first time since the end of WW II, Japan is facing the concept of personal and corporate obsolescence. "We hope this is the bottom, but who really knows?" asks Masayuki Watanabe, a 48-year...
...progeny of Lord Redesdale, and his wife Sydney, the Mitfords (Nancy, Pamela, Diana, Unity, Jessica, Deborah and their brother Tom) grew up in "a sort of upper-class poverty" (which entailed, at its worst, six servants). They referred to their eccentric parents as "Farve" (their father had such a formidable temper that he banned the Duchess of Marlborough from his home because she left a paper handkerchief on a hedge) and "Muv" (their slightly dotty mother considered dinner napkins an extravagance). Nancy, the eldest child, would capture both their peculiar family life and the milieu of the "Bright Young Things...