Word: well-to-do
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...relevance it lost in the generation after its founding, despite its steady membership through the years. Though created because of bigotry, the group developed its own reputation for prejudice. Mothers, who hold the membership for families, have to be invited to join, a tradition that infamously favored light-skinned, well-to-do blacks. With the advent of the civil rights struggle, with its Afros, protests and black power, Jack and Jill began to look like a doppelganger of the white establishment and fell out of favor with younger blacks. "Someone would almost knife you rather than...
Many of Harvard’s students come from well-to-do backgrounds and will eventually reach the top of the economic ladder. It is easy for poor workers to become and remain invisible. I am proud that the members of PSLM have not forgotten these people, that they recognize their responsibility to them and that they have the guts to do something about it. Their protest ennobles them and enriches the legacy of non-violent protest for a worthy cause...
...servant named July who rescues a white family from a kind of racial Armageddon by sheltering them in his own township world. Gordimer is a fine writer, but I'm afraid the committee's description of the book as an "anachronism" is on the mark. July amazes the complacent, well-to-do white family - and by implication the complacent well-to-do white reader - with his kindness, resourcefulness and wisdom. In other words, he's the classic "noble savage" of 19th- and early-20th-century literature. He may not be educated or know what a bell curve...
...last name, Cavilleri, had too many syllables and hard vowels for it to be an issue. But in 1970, WASP-extraordinare Harvard student Oliver Barrett III and foul-mouthed Radcliffe student Jenny Cavilleri fell in love in Love Story. Almost three decades later, Good Will Hunting paired up another well-to-do Harvard undergrad with another from a lower social class; she was a well-off only child, he was a Southie...
...first term, Wolf established herself as an advocate for working people as well as for well-to-do liberals...