Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...IRONWORKERS don't write books. Everyone is very eager for workers to do so, of course. Upper-middle-class writers take "sabbaticals" to soil their hands and find out what it's really like; reporters loiter nervously in bars in Queens waiting for something to be said so they can sneak outside and put it in their notebooks; sociologists write about it from the outside. But except for verbal records like those collected by Studs Terkel, or stuff like Nate Shaw's All God's Dangers, you just can't get no genuine working-class lit in the U.S.A...
...seven minutes into the second half, Bullard dribbled from the middle of the Penn side of the field past three defenders. During the split second that he was free he chipped the ball. It followed a perfect trajectory high into the upper corner. The Penn goalie, motionless once more, did not seem to believe that a goal had been scored...
Inflation also seems to have played a role in the decline of college enrollments and the shift in interest, as at Harvard, from the humanities to bread-and-butter studies like premedicine and prelaw. Harvard Sociologist David Riesman thinks that the upper middle class will increasingly ignore private colleges and send their children to public universities, thus "shifting the burden of educating one's children to the poor...
Gorski, who is in his mid-thirties, worked on the Minneapolis police force before becoming chief of police in Golden Valley, a small, upper-middle-class white suburb of Minneapolis...
Bullard's superb game-winner came at the 14-minute mark of the second half. The sophomore striker received a pass from Steve Hines and outmaneuvered Ephman fullback Bob Samuelson. He then dribbled to within 20 yards of the goal and rocketed the ball into the upper portion of the net, cleanly beating goaltender Sid Grossman...