Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...quarreling over the separation of the two sections of Pakistan from India, are butchering one another. A train from an old British hill station in the north is stopped by angry Hindus as it crosses the plains. Shouting Indian attackers kill shrieking Indian passengers by the hundreds. A young upper-class Moslem man, traveling in a first-class compartment with several Britons and an Indian nursemaid, gallantly and rather apologetically saves their lives by giving himself to the mob. He is chopped to bits...
...endless, repetitive probing is the struggle of the British community to avoid acknowledging the truth and the dubious morality of its presence as ruler of India. Kumar's own cultural alienation tends to make his case hopeless. He was raised from infancy in England, and he acquired upper-class speech and habits at a prestigious public school. The bankruptcy and suicide of his financier father forced him to return, destitute, to India. There his English classmates ignored him, and the Indians with whom he lived regarded him as an unattractive curiosity. At the end of the final volume...
...thing you will learn on coming to Harvard is that freshman are different from other students. You live together in the Yard (though a few of you will be allowed to mingle with the "upper classes" at Radcliffe), you eat together and you have your own special student committee called the Freshman Council. You will be asked to elect representatives to the Freshman Council from among the 1200 or so of your peers in the Yard. But the Freshman Council's jurisdiction is limited because it deals only with freshman problems. Harvard's big-time junta is the Committee...
...other hand: there are those who think Harvard turns out people, or should turn out people, who are similar, upper middle class bureaucrats. The New American Movement, for instance, a local leftist group, published a pamphlet called Introducing Harvard a few years ago that said: "That is what Harvard trains you for: surviving and rising in the bureaucracy of your choice." Even President Pusey, in his Walter Mittys of the Left speech, saw his mission as bringing radical students into the fold, saying: "Bringing students of this persuasion back to reality presents a new kind of challenge to college education...
...group of Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Geological Observatory, urged one of his students, a young Indian doctoral candidate named Yash Aggarwal, to look for similar velocity shifts in records from Lamont-Doherty's network of seismographs in the Blue Mountain Lake region of the Adirondacks, in upper New York State, where tiny tremors occur frequently...