Word: upper-class
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...upper-class students have complained that first-years flood their dining hall, increasing lines and causing food shortages...
...problems of the inner city have touched you recently, which is likely, then you must sense that something needs to happen. Reading Chuck D's and Hank Shocklee's media-hyped jabber in Spin and buying Kriss-Kross records does not solve anything--it just gives middle and upper-class consumers some temporary mental satisfaction about their own efforts to be good citizens...
...Boston area lolls in yet another day of hazy sunshine, Harvard's approximately 5000 upper-class students will register today in Memorial Hall between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m. University staff will distribute the traditional registration packets in the main room of Memorial Hall...
Hypatia is engaged to Bentley "Bunny" Summerhays (Derek Smith), an upper-class fop who describes himself as "all brains, and no more body than is absolutely necessary." Derek Smith's humorous characterization of Bunny as a peevish, bespectacled cream-puff bears out this description. But, as Hypatia confides to her mother (Bronia Stefan Wheeler), she doesn't love him, and can't see how anyone could; she simply can't find anyone better. Besides, she adds, marrying for love is too risky. Mrs. Tarleton comments that finding a likable husband was easier for her because she grew up poor...
Especially notable are the performances of Derek Smith as Bentley, the neurotic upper-class twit, and Stephanie Roth as the energetic yet graceful Hypatia. The stage, designed as a summerhouse with a marble fountain, captures that Edwardian spirit of gracious and confining domestic life, complete with a back wall made of a metal grille. For the Tarleton family, domestic life is truly a gilded cage...