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...Upper-class women in particular feel that their career hopes will be curtailed by the revolution. Says one elementary school teacher: "Women are being thrown out of their jobs on all manner of pretexts and being replaced by men. The only reason I'm still employed is that only reason I'm still employed is that there is an extreme shortage of teachers." A housewife with four children acidly sums up Khomeini's vision of female life: "We are supposed to be good mothers and then go to heaven. Very holy but not very practical...
...government ministers. Pointing up the issue of class, Labor M.P.s charged that the soft treatment accorded Blunt was evidence that Britain's "old boy" network was ever ready to protect one of its own from public wrath (see ESSAY). As Scottish M.P. William Hamilton angrily put it, the upper-class establishment had been so determined to protect its members that it had allowed "an ex-public school boy, a homosexual and a traitor for 20 years" to operate within the gates of the palace. "I have never felt so sick, angry and frustrated...
Nowadays it is the other way round. The richer and more upper-class the undergraduates, the more prone they are to get themselves up on proletarian fancy dress-which, incidentally, can often be quite costly-and to cultivate a nondescript accent which might belong to anyone anywhere. This is part of the worldwide social revolution for which America has provided the musical accompaniment-rock-and the uniform-jeans...
...clash between military regulations and human nature has produced inevitable problems. An upper-class male was suspended for two years recently by the cadet honor committee on charges of telling a female cadet that he would like to know her better, then denying to his company executive officer that he had made the statement, which he wrongly thought violated a regulation against "fraternizing" with a plebe. His denial of the incident broke the honor code. If he decides to return to West Point, some cadets say that he will be "silenced," meaning that classmates will not speak...
...behind Clementine's correct facade was a heroine worthy of Jane Austen, as her daughter Mary Soames reveals in this fluent, dispassionate biography. The daughter of Colonel Henry Hozier and Lady Blanche Hozier, her upper-class but financially precarious parents, Clementine was a shy and teary child. But by the time she married Winston, she had blossomed as one of London's acknowledged beauties-and a lady who could speak her mind. She would interrupt dinner guests who monopolized the conversation-especially if their views did not agree with her own. She even upbraided Charles de Gaulle, when...