Word: upper-class
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...there are some, like Fred Hood '02, who disagree. "The Importance of Being Earnest is an upper-class British play and that's where [Oscar] Wilde takes the humor. I saw a lot of minorities try out, and I came into it pretty open, but the world I'm trying to create is British. [As such] everyone needs to be white. I casted as color-blindly as I would allow myself within the context of 18th-century England...
...move is the biggest change to House policy since the 1995 decision known as randomization, which eliminated all student preference in upper-class housing selection...
...London-born, Oxford-educated Grant believes his rise, and hence his fall, was media generated. "This extraordinary Hugh Grant creation comes into existence and becomes more and more bizarrely different to me," he says. "It's this bungling, floppy-haired, upper-class twit--and I really don't think that bears a resemblance to me, especially not with my new hair grease." He runs his fingers through his hair for about the 80th time. "In the end all you can do is have a laugh...
...group of anti-peace process zealots. In fact, those on the extreme right reject Bibi as too moderate and will not support him. Rather, Bibi's popular strength is much more organic. Netanyahu is the king of the Israeli underclass. Those who are alienated from Israel's privileged, Ashkenazi upper-class find a real leader in Netanyahu. In particular, Bibi has skillfully stitched together an ethnically heterodox and eminently loyal support base of Sephardim (Jews of Middle Eastern origin), Russian immigrants, and the ultra-religious. Although Barak may enjoy the applause of Israel's socioeconomic elite, they constitute only...
Dovey believes this has some historical basis because, in the past, "working-class women had to spend long hours doing [hard] work making the stuff for the upper-class women to wear...