Word: upper
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Radcliffe president suffered multiple fractures of the femur (upper leg bone) while getting out of car at Logan Airport...
...figure of the nanny looms large in history. "My nurse was my confidante," wrote a wistful Winston Churchill of his beloved Mrs. Everest. American aristocrats such as Franklin Roosevelt also had treasured nannies, but will the new nanny to the upper middle class have a similar impact? That will take a generation to discover. Meanwhile, they are charting a new egalitarian course between the pantry and the parlor. Says Bunge: "They're not servants and they're not new sisters. What are they? That's what the nannies have to figure out." Mary Poppins may be an outdated stereotype...
...balance very few graduates of Harvard or any other upper-middle and top-level college, whatever their ethnicity, will become ghetto elites. This means that increasingly Black graduates of Harvard must find ways to impact positively upon the crises of unemployment (60 percent for Black youth) and societal pathologies (crime, unwed-motherhood, unwed-fatherhood, disorganized neighborhoods) from their position in national or cosmopolitan job markets--in new technology firms, research firms, law firms, multinational corporations, federal and state bureaucracies, etc. Effectiveness at this depends upon many things to be sure, but certainly one crucial factor will be Black elites' ability...
...David holding up the head of Goliath (the Goliath is a self-portrait, a striking rehabilitation of a "monster" as heroic victim) has the abruptness of an ideogram. Elsewhere it is subtler: the geometry of his Saint Catherine consists of two triangles, one formed by the saint's gleaming upper body and dark skirt, the other by the attributes of her martyrdom: the sword tipped with a red reflection from the cushion, meeting the palm frond at an angle subtended by the arc of the broken wheel...
...branching out into American moviemaking. This is a realm of invisible money, transparent friendship and deals as insubstantial as holograms. In Manhattan and Los Angeles, he is called Slick by people with names like Nub Forkner, Herrick Shnexnayder and Fielding Goodney, who communicates in the language of Upper Vulgaria: "Date-raped, Slick. Out on a date, you know? Remember. In fact it's an interesting distinction. With a regular rape, lust plays no part in it. It's all about power, self-assertion, violence . . . But with a date-rape, lust features...