Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hostility between city employees and the Mayor's office was set and has lasted to this day. Basically, the problem is one of attitude. In the face of threats from the "power brokers," Lindsay asserts principle; labor leaders call it inflexibility and priggishness. "It's this upper-white-class Protestant ethic that gives him a feeling of moral superiority," says Martin Morgenstern, head of the Social Service Employes Union. "He's like the white knight come to save...
Expensive People, the middle volume of a trilogy that began with A Garden of Earthly Delights, spooks the suburban-castle country of the upper middle class. Author Oates has but one message in her demonic little tale: behind the suburban facade lie corruption and madness. To hear her tell it, American husbands and wives are nice clean-cut vampires planting stakes in each other's hearts. And there is always the monster in the playroom...
...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
Most of Boston's hippies live in apartments on the Hill or in the South End. The Hill is also the home of upper-class proper Bostonians, but the two groups live together with little friction, Avery said. "It goes in cycles. Sure they get sick of us sometimes [like last summer], but we appease them...
Sharp passing and heads-up positioning by the Harvard defense throttled M.I.T. offensive play until late in the fourth quarter. Tech wing John Skotheim ruined the Crimson shutout with a goal in the upper left hand corner, past Yardling goalie Josh Burns...