Word: upper
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...Hara's preoccupation with the upper class and its foibles (George Frazier of the Boston Globe commented after O'Hara's death that "he knows about court tennis and custom tailoring and chic clubs...") narrowed his literary scope. Some characters do stand out: Julian English is well drawn, and the recurring figure of Jimmy Malloy, an autobiographical character, is quite believable. But O'Hara the novelist was content to write about a social order that, in the words of the critic Conrad Knickerbocker, "began to flake away...
...together less than 10 per cent of the vote. Governor Hernandez Colon of the Popular Democratic Party will run against Carlos Romero Barcelo, mayor of San Juan and head of the pro-statehood New Progressive Party (PNP). The PNP derives its support mainly from conservatives in the middle and upper classes, though it appeals to all those who want Puerto Rico to cultivate closer ties with the United States. While as a state Puerto Rico would lose the power to offer tax exemptions, and island residents would have to pay federal taxes, they claim that the increase in federal assistance...
...Udall's constituency is made up of the kind of people who like to read about "the issues," and who like to have their questions about the safety of Red Dye No. 2 answered--middle- and upper middle-class liberals. Again, there is in Udall's campaign a sharp contrast with Jimmy Carter, who said last week that he would not detail many of his positions until after he received the nomination. That strategy may seem incredible to Udall's issueoriented liberals in Massachusetts, but Carter is sure it will help him to come out on top in New York...
...addition to administrative acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
...radical's intuitive approach to Harvard admissions might prescribe a drastic cut in the number of preppies admitted to make more spaces available to minority students; the intuition of some of Aldrich's fellow alumni might lead to the selection of sons of men just like themselves--cultured, upper-crust, white. Aldrich neglects to name the brand of intuition he favors, but his rhetoric reveals his predilections. Discussing student opposition to master's choice, he writes, "The merest suspicion of discriminate assembly by students and housemasters raised the specter of an old Harvard of snobbish hauteur, the specter...