Word: underclass
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...surprised to learn that when Harvey Milk was a young adult, gays were outlaws. The new movie begins with newsreel clips of men hiding their faces from the paparazzi's flashbulbs as police remove them from some furtive gay bar of the 1960s - the decade when practically every underclass of society but theirs got liberated. Vicious assaults of gays were common, and the law rarely pursued the perpetrators. If, as you watch Mad Men, you wonder why the gay art director is so timid about declaring his sexual needs to his colleagues, prospective lovers or, for that matter, himself...
...faculty” seem to have been conjoined at the College for generations.But now, as the election moves into its final days, McCain supporters on the faculty are vocal in their demands for more political diversity in their departments, bemoaning a kind of underclass of conservative faculty. Some have even called on University President Drew G. Faust to institute an affirmative action policy in hiring decisions that would bring more ideological balance to the faculty.CAMBRIDGE INSIDE THE BELTWAYIn a search of Federal Election Commission records, The Crimson found that seven Harvard faculty members had made donations to McCain?...
...income. "My parents encouraged me to go to college but our financial situation is already so tight that I decided on my own to become a dealer," she explains. Stories like Lei's have become so commonplace that Macau's authorities worry that the casinos will create an uneducated underclass of Macanese who lack the education to elevate themselves into the higher ranks of the industry. "They will become dealers forever," says the polytechnic's So. "They have high income but not a competitive position in society...
...largest employer, the railways, and its civil service. While many political parties pledge to defend India's Muslims against Hindu nationalism, they rarely deliver promised roads, jobs and schools. "The disaffection of Indian Muslims is not any different in its quality from the disaffection of other parts of the underclass, whether Muslim, Christian or Hindu," says Bharat Karnad, a professor of national-security studies at the New Delhi - based Centre for Policy Research. The difference is that well-funded, radicalized madrasahs reach out to this part of India's underclass, Karnad says. "The government and its 'secular-minded' politicians...
...made political points--sometimes anti-U.S., often against the Egyptian hierarchy--but his didacticism was typically overwhelmed by his irrepressible urge to entertain, whether with the underclass tragedy Cairo Station (1958) or with a delirious love story like The Other (1999). Influenced by Hollywood comedy, Italian neorealism and Indian musical melodramas, he tossed everything--ideas, people, whole nations and regions--up in the air for the intoxicated viewer to try to catch...