Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...1960s' lasting impact was on what many people, especially better-off people, believed. "Middle-class morality" had been assaulted many times before in our history, but rarely with such ferocity or along so broad a front. The virtues of individuality, of self-liberation, of "authenticity" in human relations were celebrated; the claims of institutions, of authority, of legal and moral codes were disputed or simply ignored...
...must be out of my mind again. I just left a career in real estate, my own paid-for house, a devoted sister, mother and aunt, and the most beautiful girl in the Smith class of '76, all so I could return to Harvard as a 30-year-old junior. Of course, I've always been a freak. When I got even freakier from 1967 on, I almost went insane for a while; but I soon found out I was not alone, that the world was crazier than I was; being a freak could be fun, and besides, we freaks...
...when I was at Harvard, I used to complain, along with many others who shared the "Harvard Experience" circa 1975-79, that the place wasn't worth $7,000. For $7,000 I got second year grad students as teachers, large impersonal lectures, a department famed for its second class status in the Ivy Leagues, bad food, and a terrific dorm room senior year. I was fortunate that there were enough good people, many of whom could just barely afford to come to Harvard, to make the whole thing seem worthwhile, and in the end, a good four years...
...loaded fiction of the Communist Party. This genre of writing was peopled by workers with hairy forearms who became converts to Communism; toughened Party members constantly mediating a strike; and villainous foremen who interceded for the exploitative capitalist. Stereotypes abounded in what professed to be the literature of a class, but was in reality the literature of a party...
...raise questions about the nature of the theory he defends, then surely his slurs about radical politics should cause one to consider the substance of his reply. He states that inasmuch as there is not truth in our accusations, one must examine our ideology, which, according to him, places "class interest--or more simply, greed--as an explanation for why people behave as they...