Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Patriotic Front forces training across the border in Mozambique. "I pleaded with them not to go, to think for God's sake of their parents. But in every single case it had no effect whatsoever." Not only did a fifth of the 450 boys in the upper school leave, but, he says, those who did go "were the best intellectually, the best morally...
...basic setting, Ming Cho Lee has designed a huge and handsome two-story ballroom, with lots of French doors, upper windows, chandeliers, and two small opposing balconies at the downstage end. From time to time other interiors are suggested by lowering backdrop tapestries in the middle or sliding in a kitchen table from the wings. For garden scenes some potted trees are rolled in, and the sea-coast scenes are played on a side apron. Thus, aided by David Segal's lighting, the impact of the designer's architecture can be lessened when desired...
...rate target of, say, 7¼% to 7¾% for Fed funds? which is believed to have been its goal in June. But if loan demand is exceptionally strong, it may have to put out more money than it wants to in order to keep the rate from rising above the upper limit...
...unknown in the U.S., in part because physicians here are not required to report cases, the Center for Disease Control estimates that between 4 million and 9 million Americans are afflicted. NGU is noted most often in young, single, sexually active whites from the middle and upper classes. Says Dr. William McCormack of Harvard Medical School: "Almost all of the urethritis that is seen in college health services and in private practice is nongonococcal...
...been an experience of wholeness that was missing from Benjamin's life. His background was not suited for survival in the '20s and '30s. As a youth he had the advantages that his father, a successful Berlin art dealer, could provide. Yet like so many young upper-middle-class intellectuals, Benjamin rejected the very bourgeois values that had enabled him to loll around reading Marx, collecting rare first editions and traveling. He thought of himself as a private man of letters, a scholar-prince supported by stipends from his family. Unfortunately his father's money...