Word: well-to-do
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...Daniel Hirsh is a homosexual and a Jew, a loner by birth, design and inclination. He accepts the position he holds in British life (that of a well-to-do bourgeois with private passions locked firmly in the closet), while rejecting both the gay life or the commitments an observant Judaism would demand. What he loves are culture, (mostly refined) pleasure, and a bisexual named Bob Elkin...
...less pressure they will put on rents in Cambridge. And yet it is hard to find sites where you can proceed. Either community groups will feel you should be putting up housing for them rather than for your own students, or in other, higher income areas, some of the well-to-do residents are concerned that you are putting up too many residences for students and that it's going to have an adverse impact on traffic or something of that kind. I must say that after a few months of that, you get the feeling that it is very...
Suzannah's Steel. Born in 1828 in a tiny Norwegian lumber town, he was seven when his well-to-do father's finances collapsed. About the same time, Henrik became convinced (incorrectly, his biographer suspects) that he was illegitimate. He writhed under this double disgrace, and when he left home at 15 it was forever-he saw his parents only once after that. Withdrawn and stumpy, he was apprenticed for six years to an apothecary. By day he brewed prescriptions over a kitchen stove; by night he wrote radical poems and skits that read like bad Kipling...
...change this; on the contrary, it would create biological barriers by sorting people out according to inherited differences in intelligence. Increasing the nation's wealth to make more room at the top would also be ineffective in reducing class barriers, Herrnstein reasons. Some poor people would become well-to-do, but "the growth of wealth will recruit for the upper classes precisely those from the lower classes who have the edge in native ability." This will only "increase the I.Q. gap between classes." Advances in technology compound the problem; as machines take over the easy tasks, the jobs that...
...middle-class areas. Green, 32, son and namesake of the longtime Philadelphia political boss who died in 1963, polled only 35%, despite glittering endorsements from Senators John Tunney and Edward Kennedy and the tardy backing of Pennsylvania Governor Milton J. Shapp. Green ran most strongly in black wards and well-to-do Chestnut Hill...