Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Stiff Upper Lip, by Gallant...
...perhaps you were one of those who, bravely, went on with the work to be done, as usual, knowing full well the weighty perils you faced but taking them in your stride, like a man, with a stiff upper lip, as you munched buttered toast in the late morning, surrounded by friendly fellows in the warmth of the drawing room of your favorite club...
William Surface (the name is just too much joy) is conducting a small battle in class warfare. It is the author as a tough and experienced, yet fair and just police sergeant trying to cope with a misguided upper class of intellectuals. He repeatedly slurs them with the label "elite", a word that implies unfair competitive advantage and caste-like social separation...
...campus back to the ghetto, where he intends to teach while working for his master's degree in sociology. Looking back, he wonders whether Northwestern treated Negroes much differently than the world out side. "You come into the university expecting to find an ideal situation," he says. "But an upper-middle-class conservative school isn't immune to bigotry. For the black man, there's no Utopia...
...through Friday, 11 a.m. to 1 a.m. Saturday, and 11 a.m. to midnight Sunday. For freshmen they will be 2 p.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Thursday, noon to midnight Friday and Saturday, and noon to 8 p.m. Sunday. The new parietals actually give freshmen two hours more than upper-classmen on Friday--noon...