Her family adopted the accent favored by the British upper classes.
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That's exactly right, and the upper classes are very well-paid.
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The exhibition's bias toward textiles of the upper classes was perhaps unavoidable.
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The upper classes, they don't have that much trouble dealing with change.
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The middle and upper-classes were hurting as well, without much government support.
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A war against the bouts of social narcissism that afflict the upper classes.
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Bustan's market is limited to the discerning upper-classes with money to spend.
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Its growing middle and upper classes have become major consumers of the world's goods.
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Was it surprising that the upper classes looked on themselves as a race apart?
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Your own books excluded, what books would you recommend about the British upper classes?
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There are loads, many by the British upper classes themselves — memoirs, diaries, novels, etc.
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Before, he said, the movement was largely driven by the middle and upper classes.
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She infiltrates the upper classes of England, and discovers a German plot to invade England.
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It's little surprise that members of the upper classes saw a threat in the festivity.
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Many members of the middle and upper classes are Christians or studied at Catholic schools.
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Instead, educational aid often winds up supporting the schooling of the middle and upper classes.
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Thrones is a story about the upper classes, the landed gentry who move the world.
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Such ornately decorated screens belonged to the upper classes and were produced in the early 1590s.
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Salinas once belonged to Sodalitium, whose members include businessmen, writers and politicians from Lima's upper classes.
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Secret Garden's origins among the upper classes don't somehow automatically take away all of its merits.
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Some of those citizens, members of the capital's upper classes, are up in arms about the change.
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It is usually frowned upon by the country's middle and upper classes and considered a vulgar taste.
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"Don't forget that the middle classes are far better behaved than the upper classes," Mr. York said.
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But the modern game is and always has been primarily played by white middle and upper classes.
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To this day, Mexico's upper classes are predominantly white and its indigenous communities continue to suffer discrimination.
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This, she notes, was when automation began to threaten the livelihoods of the educated and the upper classes.
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And for many families in the middle and upper classes, there is a serious possibility of that happening.
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Game shooting has been a popular sport in Britain for hundreds of years, popular among the upper classes.
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I think of a SHAY as a horse-drawn carriage for ladies and gentlemen of the upper classes.
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Kim spent increasing amounts of time away from home, leaving Consuelo to navigate the English upper classes alone.
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The middle and upper classes prepared for single-opponent combat and the exactitude required of fighting a gentleman's duel.
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In January 1959, a victorious Castro strode into Havana, and an exodus of the middle and upper classes began.
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The bowing and scraping before the 'upper classes,' which produces such an unpleasant impression in Europe, is completely unknown.
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They represent the growing global sameness of the upper classes; you'll find wearers among people of means in every country.
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She had been recruited for Bletchley because the government then believed that the upper classes were better at keeping secrets.
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The British upper classes were generally hostile to the American invaders who threatened to snap up their eligible young men.
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Private jet sales are up and the emerging middle/upper classes have witnessed double-digit growth rates in travel, he explained.
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In particular, India's rapidly expanding middle and upper classes have driven an average of more than 45 percent growth a year.
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Still, today, many founders choose to launch and scale copycats that can only cater to the upper classes in emerging markets.
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His voice, a plangent, plummy thing, is like an artificial-intelligence simulacrum of how the upper classes spoke in Edwardian England.
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Yelp — with its expendable-income-having, optic-conscious, smartphone-reliant, and opinionated ideal user — has one shaped by urban upper classes.
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Among the upper classes, smoking is disgraceful — hence the self-policing of the boys — while the lower classes smoke almost continually.
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The newly sneezing upper classes in the 19th century may have been the first to find themselves without these old friends.
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This may be fine for the country's urban upper classes, but it leaves most German voters confused about the party's appeal.
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The script itself eventually steps outside the artificial, insular world of the upper classes whose absurdities Wilde mapped so meticulously. Mrs.
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It's hard to connect the problems of contemporary wealth distribution to a story whose conflict is confined to the upper classes.
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Sports in 19th century remained a luxury of the middle and upper classes with lower class athletes routinely excluded from participation.
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Men in the middle and upper classes began to train in the art of pugilism, and rules became part of gentlemanly culture.
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LONDON — You might not know this, but red trousers are something of a wardrobe mainstay for the upper classes of Great Britain.
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Unusually for the British upper classes, he attended a state primary school, followed by a private day school near the family estate.
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This is a myth concocted to shore up the upper classes' claim over the sport, according to Tony Collins, a rugby historian.
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Their ability to find more economical deals becomes a way to distinguish themselves from the presumed decadent and self-indulgent upper classes.
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When she spoke of assisting "my sisters in their wanderings," she was speaking exclusively to women of the middle and upper classes.
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Watching this film, I found myself thinking about how much of Austen's satire is directed at the boredom of the upper classes.
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The working class is asked to sacrifice now, and upper classes, meanwhile, are rarely asked to make many material sacrifices at all.
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If you haven't noticed by now, the English upper classes love a good hat, and Ascot is the ultimate showcase for fashionable toppers.
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" For educated, urban dwellers in the middle and upper classes, "one is wary of getting married too soon, of having children too young.
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It is also important to remember that Nazism was not wholly anathema in British society at the time, particularly among the upper classes.
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The playwright Ahmed el Attar's "The Last Supper" explores the foibles of the Egyptian upper classes in the wake of the Arab spring.
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For a short moment they may prosper through an alliance with the odd and passing disillusion of a section of the upper classes.
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Under the pen name Catherine Aydy, Ms. Tennant published "The Color of Rain," a dark satire about the British upper classes, in 21999.
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America's business interests, upper classes and white population have long made it hard for the poor and working class to register to vote.
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Bringing "houseboys" and "girls," often distant relatives, to work in the homes of better-off families is not unusual among the upper classes.
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Most new homes in Kenya target the middle and upper classes as it's easier to make a profit from high-end property sales.
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For nearly a quarter of a century, he produced roughly a book every two years, charting the twisting fortunes of England's upper classes.
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Dr Dietze's and Dr Knowles's own view is that the upper classes pay less attention because they believe random strangers have little to offer.
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In the Victorian and Edwardian era the upper-classes (including Edward VII) went to music halls to listen to working-class songs and jokes.
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Foot binding became popular among the upper classes in the 10th century, during the Song dynasty, perhaps in imitation of a particularly dainty concubine.
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The median income of American households decreased significantly from 1999 to 2014 across the lower, middle and upper classes, according to Pew Research Center.
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The theme of the party, "native and colonial," was awful enough, even without the swastika, but Nicholl isn't one to question the upper classes.
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Shaw intended "Widowers' Houses" to highlight the complicity, greed and indifference that allow the upper classes to thrive at the expense of the lower.
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It first blew up as a party drug in 1799, when it was popular with the British upper classes and romantic poets like Coleridge.
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There is here the exact opposite of the English custom by which the upper classes are expected to ask personal questions of the lower.
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A new tax law that was passed to help pay for Mr. Duterte's infrastructure plan lowered income taxes for the middle and upper classes.
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A widely accepted positive correlation between happiness and wealth predicts that this growth should lead to higher life satisfaction, especially among the upper classes.
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Although 'gougers' may have traditionally been 'lower-class' men, sometimes men from the upper classes engaged in rough-and-tumble, although not always by choice.
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And I really understand the desire for a low-income family to move into the upper classes, and the sense of security that comes with it.
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He alluded to "the upper classes (who) want to bring (poorer) people back down," but he insisted that neither they nor he can be counted out.
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But the first hint of a population-wide affliction — the sneezing masses — came earlier, in the late 19th century, among the American and British upper classes.
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It's a comment on the juxtaposition of a dystopian reality with the comforts of the nearby middle and upper classes, which largely ignore those living underground.
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The team accounted for population growth, as well as the increasing demand for space as people around the world ascend into the middle and upper classes.
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Acuña also points to a "deep selfishness" among the middle and upper classes that translates into an "I don't care" attitude to environmental and social issues.
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The economy is good and the stock market is sky-high, but the benefits are accruing to the upper classes at the expense of everyone else.
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Rather than the gap between rich and poor being the main influence on attitudes to welfare, the degree of inequality within the upper classes might matter more.
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He ran for president three times unsuccessfully as most of Brazil's middle- and upper-classes viewed him, with his rants against the rich elite, as a radical.
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Even as ships sailed for glory and the upper classes stuffed their coffers with exotic spices and gold, untold numbers suffered and were slaughtered for those riches.
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"Every Day Is Extra" is a bittersweet reminder of what the country once demanded of its leaders, and what the American upper classes once aspired to supply.
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As the war slogged on, even upper classes turned to the stuff as part of their "patriotic duty to replace more luxury staples with others," notes Irwin.
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So carbonated drinks that only the middle and upper classes can afford are taxed at 28 percent under the new system, with an additional 12 percent levy.
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In our comparison of the lower and upper classes, some parents need to enforce stronger norms to help their children cope with threats like poverty, violence, and unemployment.
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Having made its name a century ago selling nine-course meals to the aspiring upper classes, in 2017 it will re-open—but as an Ibis budget pod hotel.
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Educational opportunities and internships, critical to establish a foothold in today's workforce, are often disproportionately obtained by the upper-middle and upper classes through preferential treatment, regardless of merit.
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They do not see the political opposition, which is a right-wing political movement that has always represented the upper classes, offering solutions that will make their lives better.
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He talked about organized crime, citing Brazil and other countries where members of the upper classes employ armed guards and worry that they or their children might be kidnapped.
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It is not the lower classes but the middle and upper classes who have remained steadily behind President Rodrigo Duterte, despite the heinous extrajudicial killings committed under his rule.
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The result is a political landscape defined by battles between the middle and upper classes, who naturally oppose financing such endeavors, and the working and lower classes who would benefit.
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In Schlesinger's interpretation, radical democrats led the charge from below; enlightened representatives from the upper classes legitimized their outrage; and "the politician-manager-intellectual type" converted these protests into policy.
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Most of these women, and men as well, worked with their hands (literally), which set them apart from the middle and upper classes who feared all elements of 'rough' work.
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And in Socialist parties across the world, workers (and, for that matter, peasants) have historically been just as prone to xenophobia of all kinds as the middle and upper classes.
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The following chart, made with data from Thomas Piketty's magisterial Capital in the 22012st Century, shows the amount of wealth concentrated among the American and European upper classes over time.
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The middle and upper classes are usually granted the chance to live in cities, the most elite being Pyongyang, where an increasingly moneyed middle class has emerged over the past decade.
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Maybe life will continue on its dystopian trajectory, with legal clinical or recreational use of MDMA or LSD granted only to the upper classes, to the well-insured and the wealthy.
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Better because the upper classes respond to "wise and noble things"—high art, the classics, the great tradition of Culture with a capital C. On reflection, this hasn't really worked out.
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Just because the middle and upper classes often do not recognize this language does not mean that it does not express the human spirit or the human mind well or fully.
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As panic about the virus escalates, the middle and upper classes are hoarding food, supplies and medicines without a thought for the millions of poor who stand to starve and die.
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Globalization's biggest winners are the new Asian middle and upper classes, and the one-per-centers of the West: these groups have almost doubled their real incomes since the late eighties.
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And their journey to the upper classes isn't about alleviating financial tensions but, rather, about the moment when they realize that everybody else will perceive them differently because of that money.
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Patel said that sex-selective abortions carried out at a clinic are expensive, and are primarily found among the upper classes, who want to keep their property and assets within the family.
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For both Spain and the Netherlands, this was an era of economic boom and flourishing culture: Merchants from both countries dominated international trade, and great wealth was accrued by their upper classes.
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Guadalupe Loaeza, a well-known chronicler of the Mexican upper classes, remembers every detail of the time she interviewed him early on in the conflict in the EZLN headquarters of La Realidad.
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Erdoğan, the central actor in Turkish politics since his party swept to power in 20043, has always been distrusted by many members of Turkey's more established and highly secular middle and upper classes.
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The next step is for theaters to produce more work by playwrights who come from low-income backgrounds, as our field is still dominated by the voices of the middle-to-upper classes.
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But the book is about a divide between the upper classes and the alienated white working class—the same white working class that is generally credited for putting Trump in the White House.
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In contrast to the West, American fast food chains like the ones Imam orders from are marketed to the upper classes, and are unaffordable to the estimated 224 million Egyptians who live in poverty.
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There are very real and unjust barriers that prevent the poor from being able to move up the income ladder — barriers that those in the middle and upper classes can indeed overcome more easily.
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But we're not doing the same with modern internet culture – we're allowing geo-blocking, we're allowing some sort of class system where the poorer classes don't have the same access as the upper classes.
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What story there is seems to concern the penetration of this world––the elite, remote, cold, and desperate world of the British upper classes, in which refinement at the surface masks cruelty and unhappiness.
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But at the least, if he follows through on his ideas, we could face higher prices on imported goods, rising interest rates, substantial inflation and a further shift of wealth to the upper classes.
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These people belong to the ranks of the upper-middle and upper classes, who aren't merely selling goods in the jangmadang but conducting trade at globally competitive prices in industries like textiles and seafood.
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The impact of this narrative led to some of early America's most rigorous archaeology, as the quest to determine where these mounds came from became salacious conversation pieces for America's middle and upper classes.
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" Sports historian Allen Guttmann explains that in its earliest institution, rules of amateurism were invented by the Victorian middle and upper classes to "exclude the 'lower orders' from the play of the leisure class.
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At least one economist, Robert Johnson, the president of the Institute for New Economic Thinking, cited the 2014 protests in Ferguson, Missouri, and the 2011 riots in London, as stark warnings for the upper classes.
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They are light-hearted satire directed at any self-important curators, programmers, and critics who forget that art answers a basic human need, rather than just serve as a status symbol for the upper classes.
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"The preexisting public institutions included the ill-reputed wine tavern; the bathhouse, reserved for the upper classes and lacking in entertainment; and the mosque, which allowed only limited exchanges before and after worship," Juma wrote.
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For all Porter's aristocratic mien, his tastes were rather plain, as those of the American upper classes usually are—high taste is typically simple taste, as anyone who has eaten at a Wasp club knows.
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Even Noël Coward, hardly a dyed-in-the-wool revolutionary, saw them as symbols of classist oppression: The Stately Homes of England, How beautiful they stand, To prove the upper classes Have still the upper hand.
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Still, these aptly named skin atlases were in high demand when they first emerged in Europe in the early 19th century, collected by members of the middle and upper classes as fascinating additions to their libraries.
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That might work for India's middle and upper classes, who can hunker down in their condos and houses, preen their terrace gardens, eat from their well-stocked pantries and even work from home, using modern technology.
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Motor racing as a pastime for the upper classes led to a small coterie of successful female racers in the 1920s and 1930s, and the manufacturers of the era were not blind to the promotional opportunities.
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His movement is loosely associated with the "red-shirt" activists who have sometimes congregated in support of the Shinawatras (and who are themselves opposed by "yellow-clad" royalist protesters, mostly drawn from the middle and upper classes).
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That might work for the country's middle and upper classes, who can hunker down in their condos and houses, preen their terrace gardens, eat from their well-stocked pantries and even work from home, using modern technology.
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As Paul Fussell pointed out in "The Great War and Modern Memory," the upper classes used genteel words in place of plain ones: slumber for sleep, the heavens for the sky, conquer for win, legion for army.
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While Mr. Duterte remains overwhelmingly popular, a recent poll showed that trust in him has risen among the upper classes but has dropped by 11 percentage points among the poorest, resulting in a seven-point drop overall.
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On May 2000, for instance, the prime minister came out in favor of legalizing fox hunting — a traditional, but cruel, pastime of the British upper classes that had been banned by a Labour government in the mid-2100s.
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Still, it's a huge market and investors think Apple could turn India into a nation of iPhone owners, at least among the country's growing middle and upper classes, like it did with China over the past 10 years.
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With the German army advancing on Latvia, peasants violently appropriating the property of the landed classes in the countryside, and the urban food situation growing desperate, Kornilov assembled the support of the upper classes for a military coup.
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At the same time the upper classes were getting heroin and morphine via the medical establishment as a treatment for various ills, those standing a bit lower on the socioeconomic ladder got their drugs through more direct means.
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As fear escalates, the middle and upper classes trapped in their homes are surrendering to their worst instincts — hoarding food, supplies and medicines without sparing a thought for the millions of poor who stand to starve and die.
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It's a real compliment to Smith, an American and the author of biographies of both Charles's mother and his ex-wife, to say that she understands the British upper classes and aristocracy (including the royals) very well indeed.
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The wealth he accrues is not a tasteful kind of wealth but the type of striving, transcultural excess that shows up all across the ethnic upper classes: track lighting, Lucite, Sub-Zero fridges, sectional sofas in bizarre configurations.
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I loved Edward St. Aubyn's novel "Never Mind," a droll, tragic account of an abusive family, and the toxic, but hilarious, horrors of the English "upper" classes, and I immediately read the rest of the Patrick Melrose quintet.
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Ms. Feirstein, who does not buy the thesis that 529s were already a plaything solely for the upper classes, agrees with Mr. Reeves on how squarely the plans will be in the sights of many Democratic lawmakers now.
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Evening Standard's Jenkins dubs policies such as Help-to-Buy "wealthfare" spending — they help the already well-off by speeding up the time it would take for the middle and upper classes to get on the housing ladder.
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Shark-fin soup, which can cost more than $100 a bowl, has for centuries signified wealth and status, and it became especially popular in the late 1980s as a status item for China's rapidly expanding middle and upper classes.
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The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities (CBPP) has argued that a government-funded basic income would increase poverty by stripping funding from federal programs supporting the poor and instead inject that money into the middle and upper classes.
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Salinas himself once belonged to the ultra-conservative Sodalitium, whose members include businessmen, writers and politicians from Peru's upper classes and which was founded as part of a backlash against "Liberation Theology", which took the side of the poor.
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As the Queen tells it, in the first half of the 493th century hot pot was considered cuisine for the lower classes, members of which often used offal after the quality cuts were shipped off for the middle and upper classes.
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All I can say is, look: In the Middle Ages, it was common, at least in the middle and upper classes, for younger women to marry older guys — unless they were both engaged when they were babies, which happened, too.
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In a brisk, stylized opening-credits sequence, writer-director Burr Steers (17 Again, Igby Goes Down) lays out a new history of England, with killer corpses roaming everywhere, and the upper classes training in Eastern martial arts to fight them off.
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Or it could be that the students from the middle and upper classes, who tend to go on to make a lot of money as adults regardless of their college experience, are more likely to join fraternities in the first place.
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But the Donald Trump era has been clarifying in so many respects, not least in showing that the Republican Party, in league with the upper classes, is engaged in an all-out class war against the working and middle classes.
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It would also be roughly a $2 trillion win for the upper classes, who would benefit from repeal of the Obamacare taxes, the lowering of corporate tax rates, the slashing of income tax rates and the elimination of the estate tax.
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"The contemporary tendency in our society is to base our distribution on scarcity, which has vanished, and to compress our abundance into the overfed mouths of the middle and upper classes until they gag with superfluity," King wrote in 1967.
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Even if these characters' shared name is accidental, it speaks to a larger point: Disney has long evoked minstrelsy for its topsy-turvy entertainments — a nanny blacking up, chimney sweeps mocking the upper classes, grinning lamplighters turning work into song.
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But cache in these rural regions of the American South depended not on the trappings of wealth; the careful grooming and fine clothing of the middle and upper classes were perhaps not seen as effeminate, but were certainly not signifiers of manliness.
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The time is the turn of the 20th century, the place England, the characters three distinct families, all of whom interact at a moment in history when railways, factories and urban development are destroying a pastoral England the upper classes value inordinately.
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Plato was particularly vitriolic about the scions of the upper classes who are offered the opportunity to study philosophy while young but don't apply themselves, because they think they are so talented that they needn't earn their place at the top table.
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Africa has the fastest growing cities in the world, with 40 percent of its one billion people in towns and cities, but most new homes target the middle and upper classes as it is easier to make a profit from high-end sales.
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His backing comes from a broad swath of Brazilians, with support from the middle and upper classes who opposed Lula's efforts to help the poor, as well as some of the poor who are victims of the country's gangs and drug lords.
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Known as the "Ladies of Llangollen" by the locals, the two became objects of fascination to the British upper classes both for their rarity—two platonic female friends living together independently—and for the beauty of their house and its manicured grounds.
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The law included a provision sending out $300 to $600 refund checks to every person who paid income taxes for the year 2000, so middle-class taxpaying voters would see it as tax relief aimed at them rather than the upper classes.
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Today, the idea of enforcing religious freedom, disbanding secret police forces, and making it illegal for landowners to kill serfs farming their land all seem like pretty supportable ideas but they were not popular with the upper classes in Russia at the time.
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"If you go back to the 18th century, little boys and little girls of the upper classes both wore pink and blue and other colors uniformly," said Valerie Steele, director of the Museum at FIT, the Fashion Institute of Technology, in New York.
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IN 2009 a team of psychologists at the University of California, Berkeley, who were studying people from different walks of life, noticed that those from the upper classes were less good than those from the lower at discerning emotions on the faces of others.
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Some of these children were wearing flip-flops, and all of them came from a place largely written off by the middle and upper classes of Brazil, a country where growing up in a favela is a black mark as permanent as a tattoo.
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"White trash" is used to denigrate people, of course, but for some it's also a marker of pride and transgression in a lot of ways, a kind of noble deprivation, flicking the middle finger at the upper classes and saying 'I'm white trash, fuck you.
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Mr. Akhtar believes that all the sound and fury and political chaos of Trump-era America covers for even greater shifts of money and power to the upper classes — and that we are looking in the wrong direction and have been for quite some time.
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The English language occupies a paradoxical place in Pakistani society: it is a holdover from colonial times, which are not favorably remembered, yet it remains the language of government, of the military, and of the upper classes and those who aspire to join them.
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In the case of Dutch lace ruffs — giant pleated accordions the upper classes wore around their necks — the point was to show off not just expensive lace but also the hours it took to assemble the ruffs, stitch them together, and iron and starch them.
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For more than a decade, Thai politics have been dominated by a power struggle between Thailand's traditional elite, including the army and affluent Bangkok-based upper classes, and the Shinawatra family, which includes Yingluck's brother, former Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, who was also ousted by a coup.
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And part and parcel of that instruction was the central dogma of social and racial peace, holding that the interests of capital and labor were intrinsically harmonious, and that black and white upper classes were natural allies in organizing and directing the uplift of the black masses.
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Abortion would become, even more than it is today, a procedure for the upper classes: Women with the financial means to travel, to pay for child care or to take time off from work would be able to get one in a clinic, while those who are poor would not.
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In "War Paint," which is now in previews and opens at the Nederlander Theater on April 6, Ms. Ebersole, 64, plays Miss Arden, née Florence Nightingale Graham: the entrepreneur who made cosmetics, long associated with prostitutes, acceptable and desirable to the American middle and upper classes starting in the 1910s.
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Even if it is regulated, the upper classes will use the practice to create children that have distinct advantages in every facet of life, allowing them to succeed more easily and widening the societal gap between rich and poor, as genetically enhanced children are taking every well-paying job away from their peers.
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"Abortion would become, even more than it is today, a procedure for the upper classes: Women with the financial means to travel, to pay for child care or to take time off from work would be able to get one in a clinic, while those who are poor would not," the editorial board wrote.
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It might feel obvious to a modern-day English speaker that of course there's a fancy register associated with the Queen and the upper classes and the media, but Agha points out that this wasn't the case before the 18th century, when the nobility tended to have a regional accent associated with their lands.
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To ignore the latest quotidian technology today (at least when concerning the middle and upper classes of developed nations, as most published fiction here tends to be) is to imagine some screenless 19th-century world in which people may as well still be riding in horse-drawn buggies instead of hailing Ubers and Lyfts and, not long from now, self-driving cars.
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The accompanying chart, taken from "The Continuing Increase in Income Segregation," a March 2016 paper by Sean F. Reardon, a professor of education at Stanford, and Kendra Bischoff, a professor of sociology at Cornell, demonstrates the accelerating geographic isolation of the well-to-do — the upper middle and upper classes (a pattern of isolation that also applies to the poor, with devastating effect).
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The mandarin Mies, who had also produced a monument to the left — his was to the assassinated Communists Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg — made no secret of his hostility to Communists at the Bauhaus, expelling many of them, as he programmatically tried to ensure that the Bauhaus became strictly an architecture school, focused on producing work of high quality for the upper classes.
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When Julie Etchingham, the moderator, asked the contenders what they would give each other for Christmas, Mr Corbyn offered Mr Johnson a copy of Dickens's "A Christmas Carol" (rich miser starves poor family), while Mr Johnson offered Mr Corbyn a pot of damson jam (the sort of unappealing gift the stingy British upper classes give each other)—and a copy of his Brexit deal.
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