Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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George F. Johnson Upper Darby...
Soaring Enrollment. The crisis in the Italian universities derived partly from the student rebellion in the spring of 1968, when young radicals took to the streets to demand abolition of the traditional admissions process that favored the well-schooled children of the middle and upper classes. Bowing to the students' pressure, the government threw open its state-run universities to anyone wishing to enroll. The sole requirements: a yearly tax of $70 and, for foreign students, a working knowledge of Italian. Since then the number of foreigners has swelled to some 50,000, adding to the swarms of working...
Private Deeds. The Carews live modestly in the upper-middle-class suburb of Golden Valley; their indulgences are owning a Porsche and a Mercedes. A baby is due in November, but rather than move to a larger house (which they could easily afford), they have chosen to add on to their comfortable, unpretentious home. Says Marilynn: "I don't think that there is ever going to be a time when I'm not going to look for Hi-C fruit drink...
...been assailed for years. The kids, he insists, have a "value system" of their own that should be respected. They are rebels, by his murky reckoning, against a society that does not give them a chance. One peculiar value is demonstrated by a teen-ager who prowls Manhattan's Upper East Side in search of eyes to gouge. To date, he has made known attempts on a bus driver, a journalist, an Egyptian tourist, the son of former Manhattan Democratic Party Leader Edward Costikyan and others. He was never locked up because he was underage...
...line Auchincloss's novels and story collections (nearly one a year for 20 years) deal almost exclusively with New York City's white Anglo-Saxon Protestant haven of old name and old money, whose corridor of power runs from the brownstones and duplexes of the Upper East Side to the paneled offices of Wall Street. It is an influential, publicity-shy world where the rules of the game are hardened by tradition. The costs, and sometimes the rewards, of breaking these rules are the author's principal subject...