Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2000/02/04
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]>>>One most also observe that social mobility works in both directions in the US--as elsewhere--think of the character of Hurstwood, so movingly described in Dreiser's -Sister Carrie- (1901) or in endless other examples. Chandos<<< Chandos, The most telling critique of my erstwhile alma mater--Dartmouth--that I ever read was that its main purpose is to help prevent downward mobility. Didn't work in my case (I'm an editor, which, as we all know, falls somewhere between yeoman and serf in the hierarchy of the traditional American social classes). But it generally rang pretty true to me, twenty years ago at any rate. - --Mike P.S. I'm actually a "lazy editor, in class arguments." That doesn't sound terribly eloquent, but the acronym of the phrase is "l.e.i.c.a.," which is as close as I can presently come to bringing this hopelessly diffuse subject back on topic.