Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...material, the institute depends mostly on mummies from the cemetery of Ghoran, a village in Upper Egypt. Since Ghoran's unlettered countryfolk produced too little waste papyrus to wrap their own dead, their undertakers went to Arsinoë, the provincial capital, and bought the contents of its wastebaskets, which were kept filled by the papyrus work of the swarming provincial bureaucracy. Most of the papyrus sheets that Professor Bataille untangles are startlingly similar to the waste paper of a modern office building -receipted bills, accounts, inventories, private and government contracts. This material fascinates historians with the light it casts...
...final scene is an ironic blend of parade-ground smartness and mocking bitterness. Pip has been broken, and the conscripts are to be shipped out as clerk fodder. Though Wesker probably intended something more hopeful, his play says in sum that you can't change the bloody upper classes-or the bloody lower classes either...
...British Empire. Even so, in an earlier era it would probably have passed unnoticed by the homeland. But in the England that Queen Victoria presided over for so long and controlled so little, democracy was on the rise. Radicals, who were demanding universal suffrage and an end to upper-class privilege, decided to make an issue of Eyre. How well they succeeded is the subject of this book...
...quickly became a symbol of tyranny to the radicals, of empire to the imperialists. A Jamaica Committee was formed to bring Eyre to justice, and an Eyre Defense Committee was formed to vin dicate him. In general, the working classes identified the Jamaicans' cause with their own. The upper classes were determined to keep.the working men, as well as the Jamaicans, in their place...
...HYRC is sponsoring a speech by Cong. Robert Barry (R-N.Y.) on Viet Nam at 3 p.m. tonight in the Upper Common Room of the Union. The Young Democrats retaliate with Sen. George McGovern (D-S.D.) in a panel disucssion on the arms race at 8 p.m. in Leverett Dining Room...