Word: upper-class
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...ambition of rising beyond ghetto life and his job as a clerk--the hope which makes waking up in the morning worthwhile. Neither Cross's script nor Davis's acting adequately portray this other side of Joyce, the loving wife whom Simple treasures even as he mockers her upper-class pretensions...
...English, for the purchaser of a home appliance for which the operating instructions are in English, even for a shoeshine boy or a waitress who would coax a few extra centavos out of the gringo tourists. Some of this cultural influence is due a filtering down of the upper-class aping of everything North American: much of it, however, is pure necessity in a society shaped and dominated largely from without...
...Harvard, Lipset suggests that the class composition of undergraduate radicals had changed. In 1969, sons of conservative bluebloods joined the ranks of the politically disaffected. Lipset says that these radicals became more militant because they felt that they had to leave no doubts about the rejection of their upper-class lives for leftist politics. The explanation is hardly a compelling one since Lipset presents no overwhelming evidence that the bluebloods mad up any more than 50 per cent of the "militants," and it also ignores the fact that many of Harvard's radicals in the early part of the twentieth...
While many of the alleyways of this part of town are no more than a dozen feet wide, there is still a steady stream of people, sacred Hindu cows, bicycles and bicycle rickshaws, and an occasional Toyota taxi. Everyone, even the upper-class women dressed in their flowing saris, wears sandals or else goes barefoot. During the summer monsoon the dirt roads in many parts of the city turn into permanent mud puddles and generally any clothing that reaches below the knees is assured of getting...
...with the legacy of his father--an extra-legal fiefdom doing business on a scale Exxon wouldn't sneeze at--and try to adapt it to changing times. If the film has anything to say about this, it is that he is imprisoned by his heritage. He marries an upper-class New England girl (played by Diane Keaton, who apparently hasn't learned how to act yet) and promises, at their wedding that "within five years the Corleone family will be entirely legitimate." This good intension founders on the distinction between the idea of a "family" as most...