Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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This portrait of the student as conformist and joiner provides a dramatic contrast with the bitterly anti-Establishment days of the Viet Nam War and its aftermath. Then, to join a fraternity or sorority--with its typically upper- middle-class stigma and perhaps a bigotry clause or two in the charter--was definitely out. Memberships slumped, while dozens of fraternity and sorority houses closed their doors. "It was 'do your thing,' " recalls Mimi Turrill, 36, a Pi Beta Phi who graduated from the University of Colorado in 1970. "Women's lib was coming to the fore, and sorority women were...
...target of Gorbachev's scorn. Said he: "For a number of years, the deeds and actions of party and government bodies tailed behind the needs of the times and of life . . . The situation called for change, but a peculiar psychology--how to improve things without changing anything--took the upper hand." His final warning: "We have to part ways with those who hope that everything will settle down and return to the old lines. That will not happen, comrades." Even to the staunchest members of the Old Guard, it was clear that an era had ended...
...editorial in this week's The New Republic on preventing teen motherhood barely mentions improved sex education and availability of contraceptives. Instead, the editors jump onto the moral regeneration band-wagon, stressing a moral uplift to be led by upper-class Blacks and the church...
...vast majority of study subjects are upper-middle class local college students, she says, describing them as being generally quite honest, a little deviant, and risk-taking. "They are taking drugs and making...
...once said about his change in political loyalties: "I am born in the upper class but I belong to the labor movement. I have come to join the labor movement by working for the working class on its own conditions and by adhering to a movement which desires liberty, equality and fraternity between people...