Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rescue. They pointed out that the Nabataeans, who ruled Petra long before the Christian era, were the best hydraulic engineers of antiquity. They, too, suffered from floods racing down the Siq, and they solved the problem in a manner on which modern engineers can hardly improve. In the upper part of the Siq, before it reaches the city, they built a stone dam 45 ft. high and 140 ft. long. The dam was not designed to hold an entire flood, only to check its water and divert it into a system of guide walls and a tunnel one-quarter mile...
Though the Jews have scaled the social ladder faster than any other group, Glazer and Moynihan believe that they remain a separate community. Today's middle-and upper-class Jews tend to live together as much as the first Jewish immigrants who crowded into the Lower East Side. Many of the suburbs where Jews have moved have become almost solidly Jewish. This is not so much a matter of discrimination as of choice. Jews are building more synagogues and parochial schools than ever...
...begins his literary ambush with the declaration that this "writer was not a major writer at all--.. he is a major entertainer..." He notes that Jame's vision of sex was essentially voyeuristic..., in this esoteric Jamesian universe--a literary world that was comprised of one-half of the upper one per cent of the human race at best; and one-quarter of their emotions--the worst crime, next to being poor, was to be sexual." And several generations of slow (but inattentive) readers will be delighted to hear him insist that The Ambassadors is "one of the silliest...
...collective novel about a near (or let us say quasi--) revolutionary period in American life, the nineteen-thirties; its heroines are eight nice girls, all or conceivably all of them Episcopalian at some time or another (one needs a revolutionary statistician to set these matters straight), all of them Upper-Middle Class and all of them civilized to that point of Christless High Church rectitude whose communal odor is a cress between Ma Griffe and contraceptive jelly...
Bosch alienated another segment of the Dominican elite when he tried to allow the poor to buy basic commodities at government stores. Merchants who controlled distribution of basic basic items immediately joined the military in calling Bosch "Communist." There thus formed an upper-class-military alliance, each vested interest with its own definition of the "Communist threat." Shortly, "Communist" came to mean any popular threat to elitism...