Word: upper-class
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...nanny effect goes deeper than surface mannerisms, however. Gathorne-Hardy, British journalist and novelist (The Office), is convinced that it is largely responsible for the excessive shyness and the difficulty in forming relationships that he detects among upper-class Englishmen. He offers the following psychological explanation: the nanny was the child's main source of security and affection during the early years of development. But very often the nanny left the household when the child was still small, to be replaced by another nanny who might also leave. The child eventually learned to be extremely wary about giving love...
...Kraus plan's tax on parental income and other student resources is virtually prohibitive for students from middle income families. Within three years, half of the graduate student body will be bright, poor scholarship students and the other half will come from upper-class, professional backgrounds. Furthermore, the idea of asking graduate students--many of whom have been independent for the last few years--to turn to their parents for support is ludicrous...
SOUTH JERSEY SUBURBS, which I'm familiar with, are different from the ones John Cheever writes about. Where I come from, the landscape is already second-generation neon, and the politics are set by whether the last influx from Philadelphia was middle-or upper-class. There are no pretensions of communality, no historic town squares now hidden: high-rise apartments take their proud and random places next to split-level housing developments and an occasional patch of barren land. Over the last eight years, a "right side of the tracks" has developed, established by the construction of "wooded estates...
Convict Jarvis Chuff, a brainy, pacific and proletarian train robber, finds himself mysteriously sprung from the nick. His benefactors turn out to be a wealthy singer turned princess by marriage, a Church of England vicar, an ancient British major with a limp and a svelte, pneumatic upper-class bird named Philomela. Chuff (homonym for Chough, the acquisitive European jackdaw) is given the angelic name of Gabriel and soon put to work with Philomela (namesake of the poor lady who had her tongue cut out and was turned into a nightingale). Clad in dark cat suits, they pull off various nocturnal...
...procedure becomes very common, the discovery of a handicapped child could easily amount to an edict for abortion. The race-linkage of some defects makes members of those races understandably concerned lest amniocentesis become a potent tool of genocide in the hands of a profession dominated by white upper-class anglo-Americans...