Word: upper
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...setting might be a farm or private house, a tourist hotel or a bar in Salisbury, the speaker might be male or female; the accent anything from upper class British to cockney to Greek. Various illustrations were used, though the Kaffir who, with a modern kitchen, nevertheless made a cooking fire on the floor recurred frequently. But the import was always the same, and the speaker white...
Finely Tailored. But many sections have "special interest" items-60 at least-that benefit groups of middle-and upper-income taxpayers and, in several cases, individual companies. There is, for example, an employee stock-ownership provision written to specifications of American Telephone & Telegraph Co. Another part, liberalizing investment tax credits, would mainly benefit airlines and utilities. So finely tailored are some provisions that Senator Edward Kennedy, a reform leader, likens them to legislation for a "one-eyed, bearded man with a limp...
...keeps students excited about learning. Says he: "I ban from the classroom any teacher who is not 'alive.' A teacher of language should be in total command of the language, but he should also be a firebrand and an actor." That perfectly describes Rassias himself. For an upper-class lecture on the 18th century French philosopher Diderot, Rassias shows up in class in a blond wig, breeches and billowing shirt and proceeds to act out the emotional states that Diderot argued are unique to man. Rage, for instance, is depicted by heaving a chair across the room. Says...
...have attributed the drought to the unexplained absence of the rain-bearing westerly winds that usually sweep across the lower part of the continent at this time of year. The dry spells suffered by the U.S. plains states are blamed on blocking by a high pressure center over the upper Midwest...
...Citibank overtook the Chase in 1968 and is now challenging the Bank of America for the No. 1 spot. While Wriston has vigorously recruited executives from far afield to put new zip into banking, Rockefeller has fostered a clubby-his critics say complacent-atmosphere in the Chase's upper echelons...