Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Peru, which imposes 300% customs duties on new U.S. cars, the most notable rolling relics are colectivos, taxibuses plying regular routes from Lima's working-class slums to market. Driver Andrés Barreto says he was lucky to have bought his six-cylinder 1929 Packard Diplomat. "I just happened to be in the Tacora junkyard when a fellow drove up in this car. I tell you I got a bargain. That was eleven years ago, and this car makes at least $7.25 a day for me. I carry as many as twelve passengers and bags of potatoes, green...
...Clubs of America. Both Hoovers are on its national board, Herbert Hoover its chairman for the past 25 years. Day before the meeting, ex-President Hoover popped up by surprise at a lively Stanford University alumni luncheon in Manhattan. Hoover, a member of Stanford's first graduating class (A.B., '95), noted that none of the speakers had mentioned what sheer fun it was to be a university student. Recalling that "I had to be tutored for three months before I could even get into Stanford," Hoover told how he helped stage the first football game between Stanford...
...Wailing. "In 1926 the school was a teacher's paradise," recalls Marson. A boy knew precisely what he was up against, from six years of English and Latin to weekly essays and monthly reports. The school banned curve-grading (the clod-coddling system based on the class average), marked only individual achievement. If it was often Dickensian, "nobody whimpered, wailed or gnashed his teeth" at the heavy load...
...time of Garibaldi's landing in Sicily (1860), and the plot of The Leopard is as bare as a sun-seared Sicilian hillside. The hero-known in the novel as Don Fabrizio, prince of the House of Salina-simply lives out the death of his class, the feudal landed gentry. The only action is inaction. But to mistake the story for the subject is to assume that a pearl is about grit. Amateur Novelist Lampedusa's real interest and achievement is to fashion an elegy for a predemocratic way of life, to evoke the melodramatic landscape of Sicily...
...Tancredi joins the revolutionary redshirts, Don Fabrizio is forced to applaud the boy's dry, foxy reasoning: "If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change." As his next tactic for keeping things as they are by changing them, Tancredi stoops beneath his class to conquer Angelica, the daughter of a provincial mayor who is picking up parcels of land as fast as Don Fabrizio drops them. The cold calculation and hot sensuality of their courtship, as it rages through the century-old rooms of Don Fabrizio's baroque summer palace...