Word: upper-class
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...would seem unlikely that trivial questions such as these--at least they seem trivial within the realm of modern life--would be enough to sustain the film. But somehow, they do. Director James Ivory is so successful at creating the atmosphere of upper-class Victorian England that the viewer never challenges the mores of Edwardian society. A kiss, so commonplace today, is presented as the logical grounds upon which one should decide on one's life mate...
...editorial in this week's The New Republic on preventing teen motherhood barely mentions improved sex education and availability of contraceptives. Instead, the editors jump onto the moral regeneration band-wagon, stressing a moral uplift to be led by upper-class Blacks and the church...
...fact, choice has nothing to do with the situation; for many women necessity dictates that they work. The same is true of abortion. Being "pro-choice" does not imply that options, choices and consequently morality are all that is involved in the issue of abortion. Some upper-class women may have a choice. Many women do not: those who can't afford it; those who have little hope or opportunity and thus no reasons pulling them one way or another; those who are raped...
...have any of this nonsense that, as Spitzer says, "being pro-choice is being pro-life." Forty percent of the women having abortions at Ms. DiBiase's clinic are there for the second time; the majority of abortions in this country are done on white, middle-and upper-class women 18-25 years old; "pro-choice" advocates like Spitzer urge abortion as a back-up to contraception. All of this bespeaks a rather low regard for human life. Let's do away with the self-deception and avoidance of reality fostered by such euphemisms as "termination of pregnancy" and "removal...
...GENTEE1L CORNER of upper-class England in the 1920's the symptoms of ordinary Spring Fever erupt into a full blown case of Hayfever, Noel Coward's comic nightmare of what happens when English society goes native for the weekend. It might be called a comedy of manners. Bad manners...