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...have concluded that any shrinkage in the size of the middle class in recent years has been caused by people moving up rather than down. Says Brookings Institution Economist Robert Lawrence: "Many income earners have managed to raise their wages so much that there has been a growth irt upper-class jobs...
...Academics Committee is trying to set up a system in which upperclassmen would attend all doom proctor meetings on academic advising to answer freshmen's questions. As Mr. Melamed agrees, upperclassmen would offer a valuable yet different perspective from proctors. In particular, upper-class advisors would be able to describe current courses and trends within many academic departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments and could direct freshmen to other students who have knowledge of departments the advisors do not know well. It is a needless waste of a resource not to employ...
...these suggestions (departmental advising sessions, upper-class advising, junior faculty advising) place freshmen in contact with people who have more detailed and/or current views of Harvard's academics. Undoubtedly, some proctors are highly capable advisors and many can give valid general advice about course selection, but a lot of the questions freshmen need to have answered demand that the advisor have a thorough familiarity with Harvard's courses and concentration requirements...
...WOLFE in Radical Chic describes a small fundraiser given by Leonard Bernstein for the Black Panthers, attended by New York City's social and cultural elite. In a weird role reversal, the white upper-class Radical Chic back the Panther's spokesman into a corner with a barrage of questions. The Panthers have to be the diplomats, taming the enthusiastic "bunch of leaping, prancing, palsied happy-slobber Saint Bernards...
...only incidentally about Viet Nam. Men do not need a war to touch their heart of darkness, Rabe seems to suggest; the threat of human intimacy is provocation enough. Are they men like Billy (Matthew Modine), a fresh-faced lad with a college education? Or Richie (Mitchell Lichtenstein), an upper-class homosexual with a taste for taunt? Or Roger (David Alan Grier), a sweet-natured black who deflects each insult with a shrug? Or Carlyle (Michael Wright), the slum-bred black spoiling for a quick apocalypse? Doesn't matter. When the crisis comes, they will be as surprised...