Word: upper
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...lower class differs from what he calls "normal" classes--that is the upper, middle, and working classes--in that its members place self-gratification and immediate satisfaction above future orientation and upward mobility. Banfield believes that as long as this group continues to dwell in the cities in fairly large numbers as it does now, the cities will always be unheavenly...
Under Banfield's own classification system, those who are in the upper classes are those who worry about mankind: the middle class, about making it; the working class, about family; while the lower class is worried only about immediate bodily needs, especially sex, and has little interest in the public good. If the lower class does not care about the future then it will be immune to the deterrent factors of crime control and will riot and steal simply because the self-interest of its culture dictates such actions. Banfield tells us to scrap plans to build better schools...
...largely been able to set the pace of the recovery from the recession, which is much too slow to suit the Democrats. Inflation has been cut by more than half, to 5.1%, but unemployment remains distressingly high at nearly 9%. Contrary to expectations, the President has also kept the upper hand with his controversial energy program, which aims at raising the price of domestic oil and natural gas in order to reduce consumption and stimulate production. Unable to agree among themselves and afraid of retaliation at the polls because of higher prices, the Democrats have failed to pass an alternative...
Susan was a victim of anorexia nervosa, "the starvation disease" or "Twiggy syndrome," a rare and bizarre emotional disorder that has been occurring more frequently in the past few years. Of those affected, 80% are female, mostly in their early teens. Typically they are intelligent, ambitious, middle-and upper-class girls who are perfectionists and eager to please their mothers and fathers. Suddenly they start to diet and then simply stop eating, sometimes losing 50 lbs. or so in a few months. Some, like Susan, now 21, seek treatment and manage to get back to a normal weight. Others, with...
Scenes from American Life continues to alternate in repertory with Eugene O'Neill's Ah, Wilderness at the BU Summer Repertory Theater, Scenes is just that--a series of 36 of them, to be exact, all having something to do with upper-middle class life in Buffalo. A.R. Gurney, Jr., the author, based this comedy on his own experience, and it extends in time from the Depression to the future. At BU at 8 p.m. Call 363-3392 for information...