Word: uppityness
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The posters attacking University President Lawrence H. Summers which have appeared around campus the past few days are small and attention-grabbing: “GET UPPITY ON MASSA SUMMERS’ PLANTATION!” says one; “Stuck-up people LOVE LARRY SUMMERS,?...
Don’t get me wrong: FM is a serious journalistic endeavor, all the better for its in-depth, investigative cover pieces. Nonetheless, when Lisa K. Pinsley and I took the helm of the mag, we felt a burning desire to lighten things up. Actually, we—like...
Julie Summers, a daughter of the uppity circles in South African society, does her best to separate her life from the materialistic world of her father. When Abdu, a “grease-monkey” (mechanic) from an unnamed third world country, appears in her life, she cannot resist...
Ross G. Douthat ’02 is a good guy whose columns I have enjoyed on many occasions. Nevertheless, I find it amusing that Douthat, who has probably never been exposed to danger a single time in his life, sees fit to fault the Bush administration for its ?...
In short order, she says, her fulfilling work with the women's conference was taken away. Her white supervisor told her in an annual performance evaluation that "people just consider you to be uppity."