Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...straight, telling him that he was a Caucasian. "I said I'd never heard of the Cauca sian race," reports the student, "but they told me that was beside the point. I asked what ethnic classification meant. They said, 'Well, you should know your own ethnic class.' I said I'd never really given it much thought. The man said, 'You're European, Jack.' I said, 'Oh?' and he said, 'Sure.' Before I left, the man told me, 'If you have any questions, call...
...more intransigent, bellicose and stoic. Despite invincible fear of air travel, she flew with Duff in countless trips to zones of war, sometimes "hard-arse" (Lady Diana's phrase). She endured inconceivable official tedium, the horrors of the Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch was "frozen to death in her bedroom...
...every major upheaval-war, depression or graduated income tax-the cry arises that Society is not what it used to be, and Amory divertingly traces this plaint all the way back to the landing of the Mayflower. That sacred vessel, reports Amory. carried a nondescript list of lower-middle-class passengers, plus a sprinkling of servants; and not a man in the lot could sign himself "Gent...
...Senior Class has chosen representatives of the nine Houses to serve with previously elected Class Marshals on the Class Committee. Those selected were Roger A. Snyder, of Adams and Upper Derby, Pa.; John T. Daley, of Dudley and West Roxbury; Richard K. Ellingboe, of Dunster and Wilmington, Del.; Douglas E. Buie, of Kirkland and Norfolk, Va.; Christopher Gale, of Eliot and Webster Groves, Mo.; Larry J. Hohit, of Leverett and Greenwood, Ind.; Thomas H. Moss, of Lowell and Cleveland, Ohio; Claude E. Welch of Quincy and Belmont; and Eliot T. Putnam, Jr., of Winthrop and Dedham...
...dissatisfied member of the freshman class is organizing a "seminar" of College students to take a year off and live in Cambridge...