Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...tell you that something unusual is happening to women's sports at Harvard. Radcliffe basketball--only two upperclasswomen. Senior Sue Williams and junior captain Katherine Fulton; swimming--a 21 women team of which only two were upperclasswomen, senior captain Jane Hendricks and junior Sue Schwartz; field hockey--only three upper class members, senior captain Ann Dupuis, senior Karen Lindsley and junior captain-elect Lucy Wood, squash three of the first seven squashers were freshwomen...
...glad I don't have to grow up in a society where the old fogies have the upper hand. Your childhood is the best time of your life. Can you imagine living it with a bunch of half-dead people running your life...
...homes were funky, patched-up symbols of the counterculture, the average buyer is relatively well-to-do and well educated. Says Geodesic Structures' Peter Tobia: "The people we're getting today are the presold market that knows about Bucky Fuller. We're building a basically middle, upper-middle-class American housing unit that is a natural and intelligent alternative to expensive and inefficient housing...
...didn't work out. At the start of How to Save Your Own Life, Erica/Isadora is slipping out of the Wing/Jong Upper West Side co-op apartment for the last time, leaving the doctor to his patients and as Isadora says, "his hatred of women." Writes the heroine: "I was on the lam, an exile from a bad marriage, a wandering Jewess; a lifelong New Yorker heading Wes ... I was off to meet a lover and my destiny." In Jong's wall-poster philosophy, today is the first day of the rest of your life...
...ruling group in any society to maintain its dominance is to deny oppressed groups the opportunity to understand their own culture and to gain knowledge of their own worth. This rings true at Harvard as well as in the larger society; the dominant group consists of white, upper class males, and it was members of this group, the Harvard Administration, which tried to prevent the establishment of a department in Afro-American Studies, and is still trying to whittle that department down...