Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Jacobs called for an immediate discussion of the possibility of transferring Marshal and Permanent Class Committee elections to the supervision of another body. He emphasized his belief that the Council was well equipped to handle the elections, but called for a full examination of the issue...
...section on Latin America, the committee noted that upper class domination in this area "is now seriously threatened." A fast growing middle class is "increasingly rebellious against the upper class, traditionally a tightly-knit oligarchy of large landowners, big merchants, capitalists, and high ranking officers of the ecclesiastical and military hierarchies...
...income by Soviet standards. Petrov does not hold with physical punishment ("Rewards work better"). To encourage the emergence of "good qualities," he keeps a box for students to deposit notes (read publicly) describing their classmates' "positive" behavior. His discipline method is a point system in which a whole class is docked for individual transgressions or rewarded for individual triumphs. It is Principal Petrov's pride that his harshest punishment is sending a sinner home in midweek. Only gross insubordination, says he, moves him to invoke...
When the boys are not in class, they link arms in twos and threes and shuffle through the yards and corridors in a kind of endless walkathon. Always there are the unseen eyes of the attendants, and only the best of them rattle their keys to let the boys know they are coming. The keepers' special concern: sex, natural and unnatural. In a brilliant set piece that has the spectral, hallucinatory quality of a Poe short story, Author Bjarnhof tells of a boy who made contact with the well-guarded girls' wing of the institute. Like ghosts...
...first book was family-centered. Father belonged to the working class but rarely worked; mother pasted paper bags together to earn a living. Narrowly pious and just poor enough for pride, the parents regarded the boy's failing sight as a kind of social stigma, rather like being born out of wedlock. To such a boy the Copenhagen Blind Institute seems a worthwhile escape hatch...