Word: upper-class
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...Bennett won't gladhand, neither does he pander. He frequently challenges his middle- and upper-class audiences, pointing out that men in the ghetto aren't the only ones walking out on their families these days. In a speech to the Christian Coalition, Bennett urged its members to avoid a "fixation on homosexuality" and instead turn their attention "closer to home," to the epidemic of divorce that poses a worse threat "in terms of damage to the children of America...
Sounds like an old-fashioned French farce, doesn't it?--all intricate coincidence, mislaid innocence and misplaced passion. But She's the One has something more on its mind than extending the privileges of upper-class sexual idiocy to people of--or newly emerged from--the contemporary American working class. For all the wildness of his plotting, Burns, expanding the territory he opened up in The Brothers McMullen, is at heart a realist of an interesting kind--cool, nonjudgmental, even genial. He is also a confident subversive, gnawing away at the notion, currently so popular in political circles, that average...
...last question: Who has learned that size doesn't count as much as insouciance? Why, Andrew Lloyd Webber. His By Jeeves, a radical overhaul of his 1975 flop show, is a delight in miniature. Based on P.G. Wodehouse's tales of the supreme upper-class twit Bertie Wooster and his man Jeeves, a Zen master of irony, By Jeeves has a blitheness that makes the audience feel as if it's on a holiday from the huffery and puffery of the Boublil-Schonberg musicals (and of Sir Andrew's overblown Sunset Blvd...
Teachers, doctors, policemen, columnists are not affected by the minimum wage. Raise it, and no middle- or upper-class worker loses her job. But it is an iron law of economics--even Democrats cannot repeal it--that when you increase the price of something, you reduce demand for it. Raise the price of minimum-wage labor, and there will be less...
...here at Pforzheimer House are incensed by the Crimson article on the upper-class housing assignments ("Hear Ye, Hear Ye," March 22, 1996). Where did Connie Chang get the idea that we are "traditionally one of the least popular houses..."? We have been filled with students who put us down as one of their first choices for the past five or six years. Ever since the renovations to the House, we have been among the chosen. Last year five houses had some randomly assigned students. We were not one of them...