Word: upper-class
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...came to that rather late. Hanan, cushioned in a wealthy, educated, upper-class family, the youngest of five daughters of a respected physician, had a political awareness that was largely theoretical until the day in June 1967 when Israel took over her hometown of Ramallah. She was a student at the American University in Beirut, then a hotbed of Arab nationalism. She joined in eagerly: "I was going to change the world." But on that June day she heard rumors that her house was being shelled, her parents were perhaps dead, her town occupied. As she stood in a long...
Kilson said that the "new upper-class white racism" was "brought to Harvard by The Harvard Salient...
...high number of legacies on its staff. These assumptions are entirely false. A large percentage of Peninsula's writers come from blue-collar back-grounds. Two of the five Peninsula Council members (that I know of) have blue-collar fathers. One Council member, who was recently called an "upper-class white kid" by a professor, really...
...upper-class white racism, introduced on our campuses by upper-class white kids at Dartmouth College through The Dartmouth Review and brought to Harvard by The Harvard Salient which is now joined by Peninsula magazine, must be put on notice in the firmest language that its viciousness toward Black people will not be tolerated...
...Berkeley is famous for its tolerance and diversity. Harvard has the reputation of being expensive and dare I say, elitist blue-blood, upper-class and East Coast," Barbour said. "It just doesn't mix well with budget travel...