Word: yuppiedom
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...escapism," says Kevin C. Davis, a third-year law student and a regular at the student center viewings. "It's not about the law, it's about yuppiedom--and that's what people like about...
...events at the Law School this fall suggest that many students there would like the legal profession to mean more than just yuppiedom. Students were enraged when Dean Robert C. Clark closed the school's public interest law counseling office over the summer. Hundreds attended a rally protesting his action, and about two-thirds of the student body signed a petition calling for the school to do more to encourage its students to seek careers providing legal aid to the needy...
...What are the choices that one faces when one decides to enter the world of yuppiedom? He can present them and people can think about them as they wish. We wanted someone who knew the meaning of the word 'morality,'" Schwalbe said...
...fact the play is at its best when the plot calls for pure yuppiedom. The staccato exchange of pleasantries and other banter at an art-show opening cocktail party is admirably done. The best performance is turned in by Paul's boss, Diane (Sandra Shiply), whose locked jaw and frozen smile never let down, even though she suffers the most terrible tragedies. Of course real yuppies, because of the frequently superficial aspects of their lifestyles, are actors too, so it would make sense that professional actors would be at their best in imitating them. The problem is that this dual...
...while this may jibe well with the ethos of the Pepsi generation, it's a prositution of Marvell's thought. And while this simplistic distillation may sell cars, it is a corruption to pretend that yuppiedom can claim Marvell as a soulmate...