Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...seven members of Madness are middle-class kids from north London, who range in age from 18 to 23. The seven Specials all hail from Coventry, in central England, and will remain grounded right there because, according to Panter, "it's a small town and we know all the kids." "People there know we're nothing special," adds Dammers, who is the son of an Anglican minister. "It's important to keep on the same level as the people who buy your records...
...they could not be practically deployed, U.S. strategic planners concluded that the missile gap did not exist either. The photograph of the Soviet's North Sea submarine fleet showed that it was largely a defensive force; the moored submarines shown here turned out to be Whisky-and Foxtrot-class submarines, designed to attack surface ships rather than to launch nuclear missiles...
...France's preeminent literary critic; of chest injuries he sustained when hit by a car five weeks ago; in Paris. In the first of his 13 books, Writing Degree Zero (1953), and in his masterpiece, Mythologies (1957), he argued that the dogmas, idols and "myths" of the middle class dominate literature and society at large because they are wrongly interpreted as the eternal truths of nature. All of literature, he said, is "a space in which a variety of writings, none of them original, blend and crash...
...white, middle-class groupies of Third World revolution: "The people who wish themselves on societies more fragile than their own, all those people who in the end do no more than celebrate their own security...
...contemporary Emperor Jones. The problems of fitting the ritual masks of modernism over Africa's colonial scars are treated with impatient sympathy. But in Argentina, Naipaul seems to walk on a decaying planet where a succession of carnivores feed on a gullible mass and a demoralized middle class. It is a place where the grotesque is made to seem normal. In 1972 the inflation rate is 60% a year and rising; urban guerrillas kidnap and rob at will; the Ford Falcons of the secret police snatch people off the streets of Buenos Aires as pedestrians go about their business...