Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...remember the last year for the death of a great man, Salvador Allende Gossens. Allende was not the only person who died when Chile's upper classes decided that democracy couldn't extend to working people. But because Allende devoted his life to the oppressed, because he tried to see that the undernourished children of the slums of Santiago would have milk to drink, he stands for all the Chilean junta's victims. For more than three years, Chile held out a beacon of hope to the rest of the world. It seemed to prove that people could take power...
...national 1962 study that indicated that children in the third, fourth and fifth grades overwhelmingly idealized the President, viewing him as "benevolent, omniscient, omnipotent, protective, in fallible, diligent and likable." The professor's own much more limited current study of 367 children in the same grades in an upper-class Boston suburb (whose parents voted almost 2 to 1 for Nixon in 1972) shows a complete reversal. The President is now seen as what Arterton calls "truly malevolent, undependable, untrustworthy, yet powerful and danger ous." Where only 7% of the fourth-graders said of President Kennedy in 1962 that...
...Gaulle set up the school mainly to bring more professionalism and less social privilege to France's grand corps of administrators-until then the preserve of an elite drawn largely from upper-class products of Paris' celebrated Ecole Libre des Sciences Politiques ("Sciences Po"). Budding bureaucrats, De Gaulle felt, should also have a broader background in legal, economic and administrative affairs than they could get at Sciences...
...energy and knowledge than Elisofon, who contributed to LIFE for 35 years and was one of the first trustees of the Museum of African Art. Elisofon's collection of African art comprised more than 600 pieces, including some masterpieces: a delicately incised, ocher-painted Bobo mask from the Upper Volta, with its fantastically ramifying headgear (see color page); the imposing Senufo figure of a hornbill, with its swollen body and spread wings intended both as a carrier of souls and as a fertility symbol; and a magnificent Basonge mask from Zaïre, the face and forehead incised...
...spend a larger percentage of their income for food and shelter than middle-income people do, and prices for these basics have been spiraling. A Congressional Joint Economic Committee study concludes that last year people in the poverty category suffered about one-third more inflation than middle-and upper-income earners...