Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will be finan cial problems. The Daily Dis patch will continue to pay his salary as editor, but he will lose the income from a nationally syndicated column that helped syndicated column that helped pay the school bills for five children. The Woodses will still enjoy the trappings of upper-middle-class life: a big, sunny home with leaded, stained-glass windows, spacious rooms with smoothly rubbed, yellow wood Cape Dutch antiques, a swimming pool, two cars...
...just as the pneumococci seem to be gaining the upper hand, medical researchers have developed a powerful new weapon against them. Last week doctors at the University of California in San Francisco reported spectacular success in inoculating a group of 77 vulnerable youngsters with a prototype pneumonia vaccine. All had sickle-cell anemia, a genetic disorder largely confined to blacks that, besides inflicting other damage, impairs the spleen's ability to filter dangerous bacteria out of the blood. Even after two years, Dr. Arthur J. Ammann and his colleagues said, not a single patient had developed a pneumococcus infection...
...told, 105,000 Dominicans attended the twelve "Festival" rallies and 4,000 of them made the commitments to Christ. The first Latin-born Protestant revivalist ever to win wide renown in the region, Palau has preached to the masses in stadiums and bullrings in 17 nations. The middle and upper classes see him on TV answering phoned-in questions. Palau's two daily radio programs are broadcast widely across the continent. The message and the methods are modeled after those of Billy Graham, down to precrusade organization (by a staff of 17) and convert counseling...
...favor of a more passionate kind of violence. On another, the play is about the thin line between sanity and lunacy: the inmates' presentation of the world seems less and less crazy as their play progresses. On yet another level, it is about the class struggle, and how the upper classes inevitably force a return to the status...
...HISTORY of all hitherto existing society is the history of class struggle, or so Marx said, and Harvard is not immune to these titanic forces. Usually hidden, but at times painfully exposed, the struggle between the two great factions, the upper class and the freshman class, is part of Harvard life. Separation of the classes and the resulting misunderstanding only make the struggle worse...