Word: classing
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...Cubans, augmented by the recent flood of new refugees, is a serious source of black frustration or just a handy current issue. There is no doubt, though, that blacks, who now comprise only 15% of Dade County's 1.5 million residents, feel they are treated as "third-class citizens" behind the still dominant non-Latin whites, at 48%, and the Hispanics, at about 37%. The Cubans have taken some jobs that blacks always sought, particularly as employees in Miami Beach's tourist hotels...
...invitation supposedly was by vote of the senior class, but only 37% had actually voted. No sooner was the choice announced than 301 of 560 graduating seniors demanded Buckley's rejection, citing his un-Vassarish views on everything from nuclear power to black power, from Viet Nam to homosexuality...
Last week Buckley told Smith he would not appear and treated Vassar and the class of '80 to some vintage scorn. An American literature professor at the college, for instance, had decried Buckley's involvement in the McCarthy era thus: "It was Buckley who offered pridefully in those days the cast of mind and insinuating attitudes toward academia which intellectually veneered the crudities of Joe McCarthy, and in so doing, fueled 'McCarthyism' at its most virulent pitch with respect to the academic community." Buckley snapped that such a man should be studying English not teaching...
...ebullience and panache of your interpretive style," said the citation for the honorary doctorate of music that the New England Conservatory of Music was bestowing on Flutist James Galway, 40, "you have given the musical community a fresh voice to celebrate." Accepting the degree, Galway treated the 109th graduating class of the august Boston school to that very ebullience and panache. From under his doctoral robes, he produced two tin whistles on which he played Belfast Hornpipe and jigs drawn from an Irish boyhood...
Still, it is easy to see why Italy's guardians of public morals are upset. The novel is a highly styled fictional essay that depicts the middle class as wallowing neurotically in money and flesh while young terrorists wait in the wings to put them out of their misery...