Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...story concerns Peter, a comfortable 18-year-old, very upper-middle class really, but filled with rebellious contempt for the booboisie. He has no particular values of his own, so he resists the split-level syndrome by acts of petty delinquency. He cuts school, fights with his parents, puts on his sister's with fiance, short-changes customers on the job. With his girlfriend Julie he makes out, acts goofy, and has serious discussions about Life and Culture...
...those "wheels" in an "upper-crusty, hockey-playing school for boys" (St. Paul's), and I came to Duke with the express purpose of getting away from the sham of New England education. I'm not saying that Harvard and Yale are not good schools, but as far as undergraduate work is concerned, nearly every college is a "good school...
Telescopes at the bottom of the earth's thick and turbulent atmosphere cannot learn many details about Mars, but the biggest of them, says the report, should give more attention to the Martian problem. Telescopes carried aloft by balloons should study Mars intensively through the transparent upper layers of the atmosphere, and satellite-carried telescopes should take the work another step forward...
Bernays knew that the frame of reference in which the battle was to be shaped in the public eye was of supreme importance. Resentment against Harvard or trees as a symbol of the upper class, or of fighting against progress, for example, must be avoided...
...they have, according to Patrolman Francis P. Feeney of the MDC's Upper Charles River Division. "The law's been on the books for 40 or 50 years," Feeney said yesterday, "and we have been enforcing it right along...