Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...society has changed radically since the '20s, of course. Now, as Trilling points out, the educational system is perceived as a mechanism for "making restitution to the minorities for the deprivations and injustices they suffered in the evolution of the American middle class," rather than the stronghold of that upper class it served as in the '20s. As Aldrich pointed out in Harper's last Harvard overview, Harvard and Radcliffe now serve as steps to middle class status, rather than as the stomping grounds for those who already hold it. Nevertheless, Trilling argues convincingly that the dominant values at Harvard...
...their education. Equal access and a more generous scholarship program seem more likely to deal with the root of the problem Trilling has identified: the middle-class socialization that keeps coming back to haunt Radcliffe's alumnae, as they continue to treat their education as a privilege of the upper class rather than as vocational training...
...people toppled from the upper level to the first-class compartment below, the Royal Cruise Line's Naik felt a body hit his head. His wife was motionless and bleeding from the temple. A mound of burning metal blocked a path to the gaping fuselage. Twice Naik tried to carry his wife over the barrier. Once an explosion blew him back. A second hurled him onto the wing. He rolled off to earth, but his wife was thrown backward. Someone yelled at him: "Get out of there! It's going to blow!" Watching the flames in frustration...
Though he is a big-city boy who was raised on Manhattan's Upper East Side, James R. Schlesinger has the air and craggy looks of an American woodsman-aloof, self-contained and utterly confident that he can master whatever emergency may arise. He explains quite simply his willingness to take on the most difficult but also most challenging task that the Carter Administration could give him: "Any time the President of the United States asks one to do a job that's doable, it's one's obligation to do it." And Schlesinger is quite...
Less resentful than Nicks, perhaps because she held the upper hand in the divorce proceedings, Christine McVie counters past traumas with an overriding hope for the future. Harmonizing with Buckingham on "Don't Stop," her crystalline voice insists, "Yesterday's gone; don't stop thinking about tomorrow." Buckingham's "surf's up" Los Angeles enthusiasm, along with a crisp guitar solo, steams the song to a tempestuous finale. But he spins a still more intricate pattern in "Go Your Own Way," as he weaves his voice with McVie's and Nicks' in rounds. Both the percussion and guitar begin softly...