Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perverse lusts and aristocratic tendencies. The revolutionary persona is one that whites fear and Jimmy clings to; "He is carrying the burden of all the suffering people in the world," he writes of himself. But Jimmy's true concerns are homosexual encounters with poor boys, miscegenation and sodomy with upper-class women, and a book he is writing. When revolution is apparently on the threshold, Jimmy is ineffective...
...adequate for the scorched and ambiguous flora and fauna of this island--they do not explain the random murders and the failure of revolution. Instead, Naipaul explains these failures by the fact that imperialism has claimed with it even Jimmy Ahmed, who dreams of the approval of upper-class white women and of personal advancement. The reggae music that floats up to the rich part of the city from the slums is no organized statement or even the prelude to revolutionary violence. It is only the mumbling of people, being chewed...
That is indeed a mixed blessing. Udall's support has so far shown itself to be upper-income and highly educated, concerned with ecology (many "Friends of the Earth" are in Cambridge and Newton) and the scarcity of natural resources, but not overly interested in policies appealing to the masses, like jobs and prices. In short, it is the "elite liberal" formula that in another guise--acid, amnesty, abortion--led McGovern down the road to disaster...
Mariano said that television's reliance on only upper-class, English-speaking Vietnamese as news sources, resulted in the reporting's pro-Thieu bias. He defends the one-sidedness on practical grounds, however...
Since the principal electoral challenge to the PDP is a conservative statehood party, the Populars will probably direct their strategy toward the interests of the upper and middle classes. They will run a campaign emphasizing the importance of administrative continuity and their dedication to the task of reviving Bootstrap. In any case, the PDP is at an advantage because it has a loyal rural power base that has supported it since...