Word: upper-class
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Bell said he intends his protest to "resist a return to that narrow vision of academic worth that for so long limited this faculty to white males from upper-class backrounds...
Placing the set for this production in the Cabot House living room works very nicely indeed--like most Harvard house common rooms, it looks like an upper-class living room. The period music is nice, but the production could use some more of it, it uses thee same songs at each tedious scene change. Perhaps Pulido should pull out the rest of soundtrack to Radio Days...
...took less than a minute to run the program that assigned freshmen to upper-class houses, but the Class of 1990 will have to live with the results for the next three years...
...World War I founders of today's major spy networks did not think that big. Forerunners of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service (SIS) and MI5 were tight little units of upper-class amateurs. Ex-Operative David Cornwell, better known as Novelist John le Carre, offers a few bitter words on the subject: "The Empire may be crumbling; but within our secret elite, the clean-limbed tradition of English power would survive. We believe in nothing but ourselves...
...Ninoy languished in prison, his diffident and devout wife became his eyes, ears and voice in the outside world, acting as his liaison with what remained of the Philippine opposition. For seven years and seven months, spending hours alone with her husband in his cell, the upper-class matron received tutorials in opposition strategies from a master of the political arts. In between, she had to smuggle messages to and from him, sometimes on scraps of paper, sometimes in her head...