| 单词 | upper-middle-class |
| 例句 | Every now and then a racy book about lowlife—Tobacco Road, for example—would catch the public fancy, but for a surprisingly long time middlebrow fiction in America was about upper-middle-class life. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Though we lived on the edge of what was termed an upper-middle-class neighborhood—Eden Prairie, Minnesota—our house was small, a “fixer-upper” when my folks bought it four years ago. Lawn Boy 2007-06-12T00:00:00Z You separated not the way upper-middle-class boomers’ kids did, gradually and in long and expensive stages, but abruptly, usually irrevocably. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z He was haunted by what he did not have—a postgraduate degree, an upper-middle-class life—and so his affected words became his armor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z They were similar, all of them, their clothes nice and safe, their sense of humor nice and safe, and, like other upper-middle-class Americans, they used the word “wonderful” too often. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z And when you’re living in upper-middle-class Orange County—and especially in a canyon—elevation is everything. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z Life expectancy has increased overall; but upper-middle-class Americans live longer and in better health than middle-class Americans, who live longer and in better health than those at the bottom. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z He didn’t know how many upper-middle-class kids spent hundreds of dollars on SAT courses to try to boost their scores. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z In that moment, she came closer than at any other time of her life to upper-middle-class young people awaiting word from the Ivy League school of their dreams. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z Another critical factor was that it was not only the Alice Pauls and other upper-middle-class women who were instrumental in women gaining the ballot. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z White Citizens’ Councils were formed in almost every Southern city and backwater town, comprised primarily of middle- to upper-middle-class whites in business and the clergy. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z For a certain upper-middle-class demographic, overwhelmingly white, pot has all but been transformed from illicit drug to wellness item or indulgence akin to a fine wine or cigar. High Times Has Some Glossy New Competition 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z Luckily, the Mischels managed to escape to the US, where they were forced to adjust from upper-middle-class lifestyles to those of poor refugees. Gimme gimme gimme: how to increase your willpower 2014-09-20T04:00:00Z An Axios/Ipsos survey released last week found that 48 percent of upper-middle-class Americans are working from home, compared with 11 percent of their lower-middle-class counterparts. He’s delivering your groceries to you. He’s also risking his life. 2020-04-09T04:00:00Z Integrated and unified by upper-middle-class interest, the Highlands’ residents have long regarded themselves as surrounded by slippery slopes. The Unexpected Power of Your Old Neighborhood 2019-05-22T04:00:00Z The members of an upstanding, upper-middle-class nuclear family are terrorized by a malign force. Review: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman and ‘The Killing of a Sacred Deer’ 2017-10-19T04:00:00Z He was also blind, which, in that peculiarly English upper-middle-class way, nobody in the family could ever bring themselves to mention. A Voyage Round My Father 2010-09-07T21:30:00Z And they’re less widely covered and more interesting than upper-middle-class anomie. Transparent's Second Season Comes with More Angst and Less Insight 2015-11-30T05:00:00Z The movie offers a gently satirical portrait of a particular English upper-middle-class sensibility: liberal, but sometimes effortfully so; emotionally restrained, but not lacking in feeling, for all that restraint. “Paddington” Perfectly Captures a Particular English Sensibility 2015-01-23T05:00:00Z An upper-middle-class family’s seemingly perfect facade is upended after its patriarch’s mistress, Roberta, hangs herself from the ceiling of their flower business, the House of Flowers. 6 Shows to Stream From Latin America 2020-06-04T04:00:00Z Woolf’s summers in Cornwall were a reprieve from her upper-middle-class life in London, where, for most of the year, she spent her days in “the rich red gloom” of a tall London townhouse. In Search of Virginia Woolf’s Lost Eden in Cornwall 2018-02-26T05:00:00Z That's one of the bleakest reports from the front lines of juggling parenting and work on the upper-middle-class side that I've seen in a long time. Motherlode Blog: An Overwhelmed Mother's Departure Memo 2012-11-09T20:50:35Z First, though, the upper-middle-class D.C. family at the novel’s core has some relatively humdrum problems to navigate. Jonathan Safran Foer’s ‘Here I Am’ chronicles troubles at home and abroad 2016-09-06T04:00:00Z When she was a young child, Shange and her family relocated to St. Louis, where they lived in an upper-middle-class enclave of the town, a segregated universe. Two Sister-Poets Gone Too Soon: Ntozake Shange and My Sister 2018-11-17T05:00:00Z Born in 1888 to an upper-middle-class Catholic clan in Quincy, Mass., Beston was encouraged at an early age by his parents to explore the Cape. Thoreau’s Wilderness Legacy, Beyond the Shores of Walden Pond 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z A sinewy and graceful memoir, from a former book critic for The New York Times, about her childhood in an upper-middle-class black family in Chicago. The Top Books of 2015 2015-12-10T05:00:00Z A play that at first diverts you with its satirical portrait of upper-middle-class moral panic, not least at the discovery that the cook is an unreconstructed Nazi, eventually turns into something more biliously misanthropic. Before the Party – review 2013-03-29T17:37:17Z The sunny reaches of upper-middle-class American life, in other words. Home for the Holidays, for Better or Worse 2019-11-14T05:00:00Z After all, comfortable is “a common euphemism for being upper-middle-class or rich.” In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z Being in an upper-middle-class suburb in the 21st century, my friends and I spent our summers attending field hockey camp and after-school hours laboring at SAT prep. Motherlode Blog: 'I'm Spoiled, but I'm Not a Brat' 2012-09-23T12:01:06Z Most American directors wouldn’t dare make a movie about an upper-middle-class Scandinavian family and its problems. Review: Louder Than Bombs Is a Subtle, Potent Family Drama 2016-04-07T04:00:00Z We often think of infertility as a white, upper-middle-class problem. Review: ‘The Art of Waiting,’ What to Expect When You’re Still Not Expecting 2016-08-31T04:00:00Z It's the perfect time for a series like "Breaking Bad," which paints the upper-middle-class consumerist lifestyle as a mirage for anybody who plays by the rules. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z Burns grew up on the fringes of privilege, the child of an upper-middle-class New England family. Books of The Times: David Margolick’s ‘Dreadful’ Explores a Gay Novelist’s Anguish 2013-07-31T21:30:19Z Into this perfection moves fine art photographer Mia Warren and her 15-year-old daughter, Pearl, who rent a duplex from the Richardsons, an upper-middle-class family. Review | Celeste Ng grapples with both sides of the debate over interracial adoptions 2017-09-18T04:00:00Z An upper-middle-class background gave them the means to fly to Europe and stumble into restaurants where nouvelle cuisine was being hammered out. How American Chefs in the 1970s and ’80s Created a Revolution 2018-05-30T04:00:00Z Toward the play’s end, two upper-middle-class lads on the edge of middle age dance to David Bowie’s “Starman,” a song that summons memories of their salad days at university. London Theater Journal: Laughing Wall to Wall 2015-02-01T05:00:00Z But that argument will be ineffective if your wife’s resistance is more emotional than rational — if she’s not ready to accept a son who doesn’t meet her upper-middle-class definition of success. Perspective | Carolyn Hax: Mom sets parameters for her son’s college fund to an extreme degree 2020-02-20T05:00:00Z It’s nice to imagine the Loki-lovers streaming this masterpiece of English upper-middle-class excruciation. 'I completely lost it': the movie scenes that made our writers weep 2018-05-17T04:00:00Z Pawlikowski’s mother also left home as a teen-ager to pursue a career as a performer, though she ran away from an upper-middle-class family, rather than the wrong side of small-town tracks. In “Cold War,” Pawel Pawlikowski Tells His Parents’ Love Story 2018-12-22T05:00:00Z The museum contains the original furnishing of two generations of the upper-middle-class Hunter family, who lived in the house from 1894 to 1965. Take an architectural walking tour of Norfolk 2021-11-05T04:00:00Z Gerald and I are certainly mindful of the implications of middle- and upper-middle-class families of color abandoning the public schools. Worried about racism’s impact on her biracial son, a mother looks at home schooling 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z Then I snap out of it, because as a white, upper-middle-class able-bodied English-speaking male American citizen born in San Francisco in the late 20th century, I already won the lottery. This little light 2017-09-03T04:00:00Z But from the early ’70s, and by the time we moved to Broadway, pretty much everyone he hired came out of college, from upper-middle-class families. Tales From the Warhol Factory 2018-11-12T05:00:00Z Although the scent of Lemony Snicket’s gothic humor lingers over this tale of upper-middle-class despair, it’s assuredly one of Handler’s adult books. From the ‘Lemony ’ author, an adult novel of upper-middle-class despair 2015-01-27T05:00:00Z Born Caroline Calloway Gotschall in Falls Church, Virginia, an upper-middle-class suburb of Washington DC, at 17 she changed her name to one that would “look better on books”. 'I love fame': how Caroline Calloway survived being cancelled 2020-04-28T04:00:00Z Not that anyone really knows what counts as upper-middle-class or rich. In Capitalism’s Clutch, and Exploring Its Contradictions 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z “The Englishman,” set in London, is Stuart’s answer to Hollinghurst and Forster, stories where working-class boys are the quiescent objects of upper-middle-class men. A Booker Prize Winner Takes On First Love and — Just Maybe — Hope 2022-04-06T04:00:00Z But for upper-middle-class Americans balancing mortgage payments, tuition bills and retirement plans on a brittle tower of monthly paychecks, this bounty looms with the promise of salvation. ‘The Nest’ review: What happens when that nest egg cracks? 2016-03-14T04:00:00Z Instead, the story focuses on a fictional cozy English village on the outskirts of London and one affectionate upper-middle-class family whose oldest son, Vin, an Oxford student, enlists in the Royal Air Force. Films to Heal a Broken Moment 2020-04-27T04:00:00Z And Melvin, strangely enough, a now-anonymous upper-middle-class man who was buried near Luxor, Egypt, in a simple wooden coffin, has ended up being one of the best-known mummies about town. Melvin the Mummy, Rewrapped, at Brooklyn Museum 2010-05-06T22:57:00Z Now on its sixth season, the show centres on an upper-middle-class African American family, living in a largely white LA neighbourhood, and stars Ross as the matriarch, anaesthetist Rainbow “Bow” Johnson. Tracee Ellis Ross: 'As a kid, singing was too scary a dream' 2020-05-02T04:00:00Z After they married, Diana and Robin Cavendish found themselves living a gilded upper-middle-class life in colonial Kenya, where Robin was a tea broker, in the late 50s. Andy Serkis: ‘King Kong was the epiphany. It was like: you can now do anything’ 2017-10-12T04:00:00Z It makes fine sense, and it matches the smug self-confidence that many highly successful, upper-middle-class men have used to get them where they want. Who is Sylvia? 'Goat' manages to connect to a tricky beast 2011-04-05T13:48:40Z His style of drawing was straightforward, more literal than suggestive, often depicting well-fed-looking figures in settings — business offices, restaurants, well-furnished apartments — that would ring with familiarity to upper-middle-class sophisticates. Bernard Schoenbaum, 89, New Yorker Cartoonist, Dies 2010-05-18T16:19:00Z In a neighborhood that is an avatar of a certain kind of upper-middle-class family ideal, her venture is a clever and intuitive use for a home that is suddenly empty, but spectacular looking. A New Cadre of Experts Helps Women Navigate Their Divorces 2015-07-18T04:00:00Z And maybe it was perfectly normal by the standards of upper-middle-class white teenagers in the ’80s, but the norm is sometimes worth examining. ‘The Education of Brett Kavanaugh’ Takes a Hard Look at the Supreme Court Justice and His Accusers 2019-09-14T04:00:00Z The mostly upper-middle-class and mostly white MCC subscribers are not the ideal audience either. From Three Troubled Lives, a Play and a New Family 2018-05-04T04:00:00Z But the real problem with “Big Little Lies” is that the women’s stories, however well acted and artfully photographed, are just a compendium of clichés about upper-middle-class angst. Review: In ‘Big Little Lies,’ Monterey Moms and Their Clichés 2017-02-16T05:00:00Z Born in San Juan into an upper-middle-class family of Spanish extraction, Oller took to painting and drawing in boyhood. Francisco Oller, Core of ‘Impressionism and the Caribbean,’ at the Brooklyn Museum 2015-10-01T04:00:00Z The story, filmed in black and white, is simple – it is the early 1970s and a seemingly happy, upper-middle-class family implodes after a quiet betrayal. Roma star Yalitza Aparicio: 'I don’t think I am an actor' 2018-11-30T05:00:00Z “Welcome Home,” one of three songs Ms. Varner wrote with her father, upholds a decidedly upper-middle-class vision of domestic bliss, down to the two-car garage. New Music: Releases From Kurt Feldman, Elle Varner and Marcus Miller 2012-08-06T22:24:05Z Its leader, Mervyn Griffith-Jones, had no interest in literature: he was the incarnation of upper-middle-class morality, obsessed with the book's danger to social order. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z These emotional dramas unfold within the material comforts of upper-middle-class suburban life. If you see ‘Waves,’ it might see you 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z On one level, it’s a biography of Mr. Hampton, who grew up in an upper-middle-class black family in St. Louis. Review: ‘True South’ Illuminates the Man Behind ‘Eyes on the Prize’ 2017-01-19T05:00:00Z She is soft-spoken and effortlessly charming in that understated way that betokens a particular kind of well-bred, upper-middle-class, English background. Victoria Miro 2010-07-10T23:05:00Z The series, which follows three generations of a black, upper-middle-class Los Angeles family, averaged 10.7 million viewers. TV ratings: ABC's 'black-ish' starts strong with 'Modern Family' help 2014-09-25T04:00:00Z In the episode, the title character, an upper-middle-class married suburbanite played by Bea Arthur, with a grown daughter and a grandson, faced an unplanned pregnancy in her late 40s and wrestled with her options. Austin Kalish, a Writer of ‘Maude’ Abortion Episode, Dies at 95 2016-10-07T04:00:00Z The series, which follows three generations of a black, upper-middle-class Los Angeles family, averaged 7.9 million viewers. TV ratings: CBS wins the night with 'Criminal Minds,' 'Stalker' 2014-10-02T04:00:00Z Both chronicle the misadventures and tragedies of the suburban, upper-middle-class Maplewood family, mingling naive yearning, social satire, sexual dysfunction and shocking violence in a way that enthralled some viewers and disgusted others. Todd Solondz, patron saint of pessimism 2010-07-23T19:01:00Z But he became best known for his work in the indie comedy “My Big Fat Greek Wedding,” which centered on a middle-class Greek American woman who falls in love with an upper-middle-class White Anglo-Saxon Protestant. Michael Constantine of ‘My Big Fat Greek Wedding’ dies at 94 2021-09-09T04:00:00Z It follows a Black boy from an upper-middle-class family as he nurses a dream of becoming a tap dancer, against his father’s wishes. New York City Center to Revive a Pair of Musicals About Black Lives 2020-09-18T04:00:00Z A 19th-century contemporary of masters such as Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir and Édouard Manet, Bazille left his upper-middle-class family in southern France for Paris, where he studied both art and medicine. X-rays reveal lost treasures beneath paintings 2017-05-12T04:00:00Z Morales is the self-confessed "upper-middle-class" son of an Irish mother and Puerto Rican banker from New York's Upper West Side, where he still lives. New band of the day – Ratking (No 1,362) 2012-10-01T16:51:57Z “But where I went to college — a mostly white college in an upper-middle-class neighborhood — everyone was saying, ‘Oh, he got what he deserved.’ “The Hate U Give”: Angie Thomas, Children of Promise and the girl in the mirror 2017-04-16T04:00:00Z My parents were bohemian members of the new middle class, but the conductor was an upper-middle-class product of the public school system. ‘I couldn’t deal with it, it tore me apart’: surviving child sexual abuse 2019-02-01T05:00:00Z For upper-middle-class white people, much of what they are seeing on "Serial" may seem crazy. True crime and punishment: “Serial” creators on the dark and difficult truths of their third... 2018-12-05T05:00:00Z American middle education is pilloried in Jacob Presson’s “Very Bad Words,” a bristling portrait of vanity, ambition and prejudice at an upper-middle-class Massachusetts high school. ArtsBeat: New York Fringe Festival Report: ‘Very Bad Words’ 2013-08-23T20:00:49Z “Transparent” may be considered a comedy during awards season, but it is also a profoundly honest and often heartbreaking story of an upper-middle-class Jewish family in Los Angeles. Between ‘Transparent’ Seasons, Judith Light Isn’t Playing Nice 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z But one particular strain may be resistance to the current atmosphere of overparenting and its attendant upper-middle-class signifiers. No Kids for Me, Thanks 2015-04-03T04:00:00Z Is this your answer to all those plays about upper-middle-class people talking about their pregnancies and real estate? Lupita Nyong’o Shines a Light on Africa 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z Jesse was a cynic long before that -- a white boy who rebelled against his upper-middle-class parents' sanctimonious coldness and remade himself as a faux gangsta who was all about getting paid and laid. Recap: "Breaking Bad" 4x3, "Open House" 2011-08-01T18:30:00Z The eldest of four children, she was born into a rarefied 1940s, upper-middle-class world of debutantes and weekend horseback rides. Camille Cosby: A life spent juggling her role as public figure with desire to be private 2014-12-23T05:00:00Z The feminism that has mattered to the media and made magazine headlines in recent years has been the feminism most useful to heterosexual, high-earning middle- and upper-middle-class white women. Mainstream feminism is tepid and cowardly: Work, sex, race, “having it all” and true liberation 2014-09-14T04:00:00Z She told me that her doctors were dismissive, believing C.F.S. to primarily afflict “upper-middle-class professional women trying to have it all, and their bodies were saying, ‘You can’t.’ A Town for People with Chronic Fatigue 2019-09-03T04:00:00Z But her upright, commanding stoicism exudes the familiar, bracing air of upper-middle-class stoicism that remains one of Britain’s most popular cultural exports. London Theater Journal: In the Shadow of the Nazis 2015-02-04T05:00:00Z Ms. Fathi, who served as a reporter for The New York Times in Iran for nine years, was born in 1970 into a secular upper-middle-class family in Tehran. Nazila Fathi’s ‘The Lonely War’ Is a Memoir of Iran 2014-12-31T05:00:00Z The correspondence is a grotesque, intimate look at total commitment to Nazism, horrific evil interspersed with the banality of upper-middle-class life. Following the Trail of a Nazi Mass Murderer Who Was Never Caught 2021-02-02T05:00:00Z Though upper-middle-class Sam is the victim's blood relative, this journey is Phoebe's: Hers is the danger, hers the transformation. New in sci fi, fantasy and horror: titles by Joan Aiken, Jennifer McMahon and Tin House 2011-08-20T18:05:54Z “Culture in this country and in this town is owned by a specific class of people, mostly upper-middle-class white,” he added. Cut, Baste, Stitch, Sing! 2011-06-21T21:44:31Z The productivity of the small number of well-paid, well-educated, upper-middle-class Americans, and their quality time with friends and family, would be enhanced if they outsourced their household chores to servants. Dear Class of 2012, life isn’t easy 2012-06-26T20:49:00Z His concentration is a fortress that initially blocks out Ann’s out-of-nowhere remark, “We should talk” — a sign if ever there was one that all is not well in this upper-middle-class paradise. Deaf West sets out to tame 'Edward Albee's At Home at the Zoo' 2017-03-11T05:00:00Z Situated at the end of a nondescript cul-de-sac, it’s barely distinguishable from its modest upper-middle-class neighbors. Gucci Mane, Buff, Sober, Out of the Pen and Ready to Flow 2016-07-20T04:00:00Z Dear Carolyn: Two years ago, hubby and I bought our dream home in an upper-middle-class suburb. Carolyn Hax: Getting off on the wrong foot with stay-at-home moms 2015-11-01T04:00:00Z It should be no surprise that O'Brien possesses all those qualities, despite a public persona based on his humility and upper-middle-class ordinariness. "Conan O'Brien Can't Stop": Backstage with Coco 2011-06-23T00:30:00Z She opened with her standard line delivered in a self-mocking tone: “I like to say I grew up a very poor white Jewish upper-middle-class girl from the North Shore of Chicago, oh poor me.” For this acclaimed pastry chef, home tastes like a coffee cake 2018-01-08T05:00:00Z She was a teenager from a conservative upper-middle-class Roman Catholic family in the provinces when she met Mr. Mitterrand, then in his mid-40s and married with two children, an occasional golf partner of her father. In François Mitterrand Letters, an Intimate Portrait of the Other Woman 2016-10-17T04:00:00Z And the shopping area itself was curiously moodless, like the third floor of a five-floor department store anchoring an upper-middle-class suburban mall. | Nordstrom Rack: Thrift Shopping at Nordstrom Rack in Manhattan 2010-06-16T18:27:00Z “I sound like someone’s stereotypical idea of an educated, upper-middle-class, white woman from Connecticut because that’s what I grew up around,” LaVoy said. As Audiobook Market Grows, Narrators of Color Find Their Voice 2020-06-03T04:00:00Z Cleo is a young woman of Mesoamerican heritage working as a live-in maid for a beleaguered upper-middle-class family in Mexico City. Why Roma should win the best picture Oscar 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z Some who’ve worked with Hardy note a somewhat tortured personality and also point to a complicated past that includes, despite an upper-middle-class London upbringing, addiction and a hardscrabble existence in his teens and early 20's. In 'The Drop,' Tom Hardy was still on camera, and unbridled off it 2014-09-11T04:00:00Z Standing in front of that judge, there are all kinds of implicit privileges that attach to an upper-middle-class white woman, but you can’t underestimate how important access to good legal counsel is. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Stevenson's point made me think about the middle- and upper-middle-class African Americans unable to understand the poor and vice versa. Why I'm sick of "woke" culture 2020-02-08T05:00:00Z Narducci also saw plenty of middle- and upper-middle-class men, as well as wealthy men, who searched for a bride abroad. Mail-order brides: old practice still seen as new chance for a better life – for some 2016-01-11T05:00:00Z She saw it as a reflection of a privileged, upper-middle-class, second-wave feminism that the younger feminists of today want to distance themselves from, while still acknowledging their indebtedness. ‘The Heidi Chronicles’ Is Trailed by Questions of Feminism and Legacy 2015-04-22T04:00:00Z Pierpont also makes many astute observations about the rhythms of upper-middle-class life in Manhattan. ‘Among the Ten Thousand Things’: A family torn apart by infidelity 2015-07-02T04:00:00Z I didn’t feel the need to seek out stories about me because hell, I was a straight, white, upper-middle-class male and images of me and my point of view was everywhere. When you grow up, your heart doesn’t have to die: Kevin Smokler and Jason Diamond on the perfectly imperfect world of John Hughes 2016-11-26T05:00:00Z “I’m a white, cis man from an upper-middle-class liberal family,” he wrote in the post. Connor Jessup of ‘Locke & Key’ Gets His Nails Done 2020-02-21T05:00:00Z Two years after their deaths, her father died, and the posthumous revelation of his bad investments reduced the Wrays' upper-middle-class lifestyle to penury. Sarah Waters mixes crime and romantic strangers in 'Paying Guests' 2014-09-18T04:00:00Z A white, upper-middle-class, middle-aged housewife, she is not a type that has shown up much in American theater lately, except in annoying supporting roles. Review: A Sex Crime Disarranges a Tidy World in ‘Something Clean’ 2019-05-30T04:00:00Z If Holofcener's central characters tend, more often than not, to be upper-middle-class or rich women in big cities, that's because those are the people she knows best. The art of making "vagina movies" 2010-04-29T17:55:00Z The characters are smart, articulate upper-middle-class New Yorkers seeking relief from pain and frustration and finding it in the usual palliatives. Review: ‘Anesthesia’ Ponders the Meaningfulness of Life 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z Fox will televise “Our Kind of People,” a series about upper-middle-class Black professionals who vacation on Martha’s Vineyard. Networks rely on reboots, franchises amid streaming’s rise 2021-05-20T04:00:00Z After puberty, he found himself paralyzed by body insecurities, sexual inhibitions, hypochondria and the expectations of upper-middle-class society. His Own Best Character 2011-05-18T20:55:46Z In both “A Room with a View” and “Maurice,” the awkwardness of human intimacy is heightened by the constraints of upper-middle-class manners in Edwardian England. James Ivory and the Making of a Historic Gay Love Story 2017-05-19T04:00:00Z On another level, she’s not so naïve as not to consider the source: “upper-middle-class kids who wore Doc Martens and anarchist symbols.” Riff: ?Why Write Novels at All?? 2012-01-13T22:19:00Z For a few decades following the Civil War his lively, multifigure tabletop tableaus, known as Rogers Groups, sold by the tens of thousands to middle- and upper-middle-class folks for about $15 apiece. Art Review: ‘John Rogers: American Stories’ at New-York Historical Society 2012-11-08T22:14:24Z Despite early unity with abolitionists, upper-middle-class white women willing to sacrifice racial equality for gender equality is nothing new. In ‘The Woman’s Hour,’ the Battle Over the 19th Amendment Comes to Life 2018-04-18T04:00:00Z Still, core HBO viewers staying tuned after the upper-middle-class comedy of manners Divorce might experience whiplash. Issa Rae on Her Show Insecure: 'This Is Not the Quintessential Black-Woman Experience' 2016-09-01T04:00:00Z The setting is the white upper-middle-class liberal elite, the kind of people who pride themselves on their post-racial sensibilities. Jordan Peele on making a hit comedy-horror movie out of America’s racial tensions 2017-03-04T05:00:00Z Granted, they were upper-middle-class people, Mr. Lorenz said in an interview on Tuesday — perhaps like the magazine’s readers, with “the same kind of privileges but also the same kind of obstacles.” Robert Weber Dies at 92; His New Yorker Cartoons Twitted the Overprivileged 2016-11-02T04:00:00Z Next they need to leave their upper-middle-class enclaves and move closer to Fishtown. Charles Murray?s ?Coming Apart: The State of White America? 2012-02-05T22:33:26Z She’s an upper-middle-class Midwesterner whose sophisticated experiences don’t override the folksy twang of her early proprieties; she has old-fashioned prejudices which provide, in effect, the lighting that makes for the visual style of her observation. A Brilliant, Unknown Memoir About Classic Hollywood 2016-03-03T05:00:00Z Started as an upper-middle-class hobby, it invades the British public consciousness once a year, marketed less as a sport and more as a burst of genteel anachronisms. Love Game: serving up equality 2014-05-26T04:00:00Z Roiphe has a tendency to think mainly about how power affects her and women like her — white, straight, upper-middle-class, with elite educations and successful careers. Katie Roiphe Puts Her Romantic History Under a Microscope 2020-03-03T05:00:00Z There is an unending appetite for plays about upper-middle-class white people talking about their pregnancies and their real estate, and no one ever sees that as redundant. Lupita Nyong’o Shines a Light on Africa 2015-09-23T04:00:00Z We demonstrated the discrepancy in ACE funding across London and argued that south-west London was less leafy, white and upper-middle-class than perhaps ACE imagined. Arts Council rejects: where did we go wrong? 2011-04-05T14:09:44Z Most depict seemingly middle and upper-middle-class families, many from North America and some from Europe: Ukraine, Bulgaria, Serbia, Hungary, France. To All the Snowmen We’ve Made Together 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z As boomers moved from blue-collar to middle- and upper-middle-class, many of us had the same thought: Imagine if we’d started sooner, practiced more and played longer seasons. Generation B: It?s All Downhill From Here 2010-03-25T23:02:00Z It takes an upper-middle-class striver like Matthew Macfadyen’s smiling, boneless Tom to derive any pleasure from the accouterments. ‘Succession’ Is Over. Why Did We Care? 2023-05-28T04:00:00Z One fact sometimes overlooked is that Sistema is also open to people from middle-class or upper-middle-class families. El Sistema, Venezuela?s Plan to Help Children Through Music 2012-02-15T23:42:27Z These are the kinds of guys that most people tend to think of when they picture upper-middle-class white gay men, and the people that tend to populate gay ghettos, like Chelsea, in New York. Manny Pacquiao loses his crown 2012-05-16T18:50:00Z “He’s tough as a paper cut but that doesn’t mean he can’t enjoy drab workshop fiction about upper-middle-class whites,” Eichner explains. Watch Billy Eichner and Andy Samberg Pitch Hilarious New Superhero Franchises 2016-12-05T05:00:00Z I was 21, came from the slums and I'd never really met people like this – highly educated, upper-middle-class people talking with patrician voices about the working classes and the struggle. Appreciation: Corin Redgrave, 1939-2010 2010-04-10T23:08:00Z The lyrics, meanwhile, depict a nightmarish upper-middle-class life observed by a woman so sensitive she can’t help crying — “Your tears are mine,” Ms. Martinez pledged in the title track — but tough enough to fight back. Review: Melanie Martinez Performs ‘Cry Baby’ and Other Songs From Her Debut Album 2015-09-13T04:00:00Z She and her friends share typical upper-middle-class suburban existences. What Happens When an African-American Girl From Oregon Discovers Harlem? 2019-09-13T04:00:00Z For all of its important messaging, it remains a very white, very upper-middle-class film. Why Didn’t Steven Spielberg Get an Oscar Nomination for ‘The Post’? 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z To be a single, upper-middle-class woman in Victorian times was to be up the proverbial creek without a paddle. ‘The Fever Tree’: a Victorian epidemic in South Africa 2013-07-24T22:06:30Z Like so many others drawn to the Village, Mr. Holzman, the son of a Manhattan doctor, was uneasy with his upper-middle-class background and looking to reinvent himself. Indie-Label Folkie to Rock Patriarch 2011-03-06T01:45:27Z Often set in tasteful living rooms, they tend to feature an upper-middle-class family dealing portentously with a topical issue as it affects their narrow interests. Review: Bullies and Victims Face Off in ‘After.’ But Who’s Who? 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Across the nation, we've seen victory gardens pop up in yards of homebound upper-middle-class Americans, planted with hope, thriftiness and a creative outlet in mind. 54 million people in the U.S. may go hungry during the pandemic — can urban farms help? 2020-09-04T04:00:00Z But it’s far more a homage, less white and upper-middle-class. After ‘Game of Thrones,’ Nathalie Emmanuel Is Ready to Take the Lead 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z Too many of the catalog’s project descriptions have the promotional tone of advertisements, just as too many of the designs in this global survey seem conceived to fit comfortably in upper-middle-class first-world homes. Art Review: Thinking Green ? Design Triennial at Cooper-Hewitt 2010-05-13T21:45:00Z In an essay titled “Life Cycles,” she traces the path of a brainy upper-middle-class kid raised by “parents with big problems” but recites the entire life in a dreamlike first-person plural. ‘Hallelujah Anyway’: Anne Lamott’s conflicted message for a conflicted nation 2017-03-28T04:00:00Z It may be “a compendium of clichés about upper-middle-class angst,” Mike Hale wrote in The New York Times, but “visually, at least, ‘Big Little Lies’ is the perfect television beach read.” What’s on TV Sunday: ‘Big Little Lies’ and ‘The Good Fight’ 2017-02-19T05:00:00Z Ms. Holofcener, for more than two decades one of the sharpest anatomists of upper-middle-class American life, is more interested in the idiosyncrasies of behavior and the texture of specific relationships than in easy generalities. Review: In ‘The Land of Steady Habits,’ Suburban Malaise, With a Twist 2018-09-13T04:00:00Z In its portrayal of an upper-middle-class black family, many have argued, it helped paved the way for Barack Obama’s presidency. Bill Cosby, in Mark Whitaker’s New Biography 2014-09-22T04:00:00Z Messina is now an upper-middle-class Californian suburb, and all the characters are smartly dressed in collars, ties and lounge suits, their hair neatly cut. Much Ado About Nothing – review 2013-06-15T23:06:00Z It's a textbook case of what social scientists have long called "Missing White Woman Syndrome," or selective attention paid to missing person cases involving young, white, upper-middle-class women or girls. How “Only Murders” foreshadowed the Gabby Petito media circus and citizen sleuthing 2021-09-21T04:00:00Z The types and tropes were all there—mean girls, jocks, bullying, upper-middle-class ennui, idiotic or abusive parents, delusional teachers, a bad-boy crush—but they were relentlessly amplified, turned into grotesques. “Heathers” Blew Up the High-School Comedy 2019-03-27T04:00:00Z I mean there are some upper-middle-class people, but there aren’t a whole lot of people with nannies there, for instance. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z On a brisk Sunday after church, nine days before the election, Walton stood in the driveway of one of her supporters in a predominantly White, upper-middle-class neighborhood that she will probably lose on Tuesday. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z The four Cazalet books form a tightly constructed and beautifully written narrative charting the shifting fortunes of an upper-middle-class English family during and after the second world war. Elizabeth Jane Howard: 'I'm 90. Writing is what gets me up in the morning' 2013-04-06T23:05:23Z A pseudo-documentary in the Blair Witch Project manner, centres with something less than total conviction on a quintet of dislikable upper-middle-class blood sports enthusiasts. Blooded ? review 2011-04-02T23:09:32Z Its four principal characters gather in the treehouse of Pipe, an upper-middle-class Cuban-American, as the entire membership of the Dead Leaders Club. Review: Paging Pablo Escobar in ‘Our Dear Dead Drug Lord’ 2019-09-24T04:00:00Z And the upper-middle-class mom problem has been done to death; there have been tons of books out there. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z Film and television portrayals of infertile women, like Tamara Jenkins’s widely praised Private Life, again and again show women from the same demographic: older, heterosexual, upper-middle-class, educated, white. Why Gabrielle Union and Michelle Obama opening up about miscarriage and infertility matters 2018-12-12T05:00:00Z We have the largest black upper-middle-class in history, but we have the largest black male prison population. Henry Louis Gates, Jr. Talks 12 Years a Slave and The African Americans 2013-10-22T17:35:56Z On this late March Thursday in Pittsburgh, he crossed into an upper-middle-class neighborhood dotted with churches and old mansions, the sidewalks vacant except for a few early morning joggers. Joe Sestak still wants to be senator — so he walked solo across Pennsylvania. 2015-04-02T04:00:00Z In upper-middle-class Tehran in 1976, piety is taken as a sign of mental imbalance: Marji’s teacher summons her parents to discuss the child’s worrying psychological state. Review: ‘Persepolis,’ by Marjane Satrapi 2021-10-21T04:00:00Z There’s an element of Shaw’s “Pygmalion” in the way she is slowly indoctrinated into the family’s upper-middle-class mores. Books of The Times: ‘Love, Nina,’ by Nina Stibbe 2014-04-21T21:47:49Z Unlike Winfrey, King grew up in a tightly knit upper-middle-class family. Gayle King, Oprah's sidekick no more 2011-03-22T04:13:37Z I wonder if artists in Cuba understand what to do with their privilege, other than buying bigger houses and creating bigger studios and becoming upper-middle-class. Tania Bruguera on her art, her detentions and what happens next 2015-01-10T05:00:00Z Carmela is a complicated character who wrestles with the bargain she made when she married Tony, trading complicity with his sins for upper-middle-class comforts. ‘The Sopranos’ 20th Anniversary: Here’s Your Complete Guide to Rewatching It 2019-01-09T05:00:00Z It’s the history of upper-middle-class white privilege in a single frappucino. In the galleries: Reclaiming cultural identity 2017-03-10T05:00:00Z They were mostly middle-class and upper-middle-class kids from Stanford, and so some of the brightest minds focused on convenience apps, grocery delivery systems and on-demand laundry. A Journey — if You Dare — Into the Minds of Silicon Valley Programmers 2019-04-01T04:00:00Z Wendy is an upper-middle-class woman of letters with a highbrow reputation. Review: ‘Learning to Drive’ Charts a Culture-Bridging Friendship 2015-08-20T04:00:00Z But other times, let's face it, that's upper-middle-class college-educated leftist code for "I'm not a snob -- I just resent being asked to empathize with people I consider abrasive and low-class." Great Oscar debate: What is the real best picture? 2011-02-26T01:01:00Z The members of an upper-middle-class New York household share a single desktop computer, with a dot-matrix printer and a slot for floppy disks. Review: In ‘Landline,’ the Family That Strays Together 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z “We’ve already seen change — some upper-middle-class Afghans are getting interested,” he said. An Afghan Bazaar Parachutes Into Washington 2016-03-16T04:00:00Z It’s about a family — an upper-middle-class Black one, groundbreaking for a Broadway musical in 1983 — and the main conflicts are generational. Calling All Tap Dance Kids (It’s Not the Acting Kid or the Singing Kid) 2022-02-01T05:00:00Z Many of her upper-middle-class followers had fat bank accounts that gave them the freedom to escape the boring old world and the boring people stuck in their soul-sucking jobs. ‘Eat Pray Love Made Me Do It’: Really? We need to talk. 2016-03-22T04:00:00Z This, the DPP's files reveal, was what the upper-middle-class male lawyers and politicians of the time refused to tolerate. The trial of Lady Chatterley's Lover 2010-10-22T11:00:00Z Three, his indictment arrives on wheels: He takes aim at just about the entirety of upper-middle-class life in America. ‘Excellent Sheep,’ William Deresiewicz’s Manifesto 2014-08-12T04:00:00Z Raised comfortably in an upper-middle-class family, she said she didn’t confront prejudice against Mexicans — or the troubling notion that she was exempt because of her privilege and her fair skin — until she moved to Chicago. Mexican? American? Call Her Writer 2011-03-25T00:30:30Z He seemed completely in command of his milieu, middle- and upper-middle-class England at the beginning of the twentieth century, and he gently picked apart its sympathies with wit and penetrating insight. Why Novelize a Novelist's Life? 2014-10-06T04:00:00Z In Egypt, ballet recitals were mostly confined to private dance schools, often run by British teachers, where the students usually came from upper-middle-class families like Ms. Saleh’s. Magda Saleh, Influential Egyptian Ballerina, Is Dead at 79 2023-06-20T04:00:00Z And the upper-middle-class normal is currently piled high with work. The Organizational Celebrity 2016-06-23T04:00:00Z Ms. Hill’s debut is one of those upper-middle-class family sagas — this damaged marriage repeats itself in their daughter’s troubled relationship — that’s dramatic enough to entertain despite its larger flaws. Alissa Nutting’s ‘Tampa,’ and More 2013-07-24T19:27:43Z I am an upper-middle-class person, and a lot of people that I know didn’t know anything about the prison system. Orange is the New Black” author: Prison wastes time, human potential and money 2013-09-06T23:00:00Z Or before 9 a.m., from upper-middle-class parents already intoxicated and overcome with regret that they hadn’t found better doctors to treat their child’s cancer. This Life: Her child died, and now she heads a club that no one wants to join 2017-12-05T05:00:00Z His mother was apparently pretty overbearing, but basically he had it good: he was upper-middle-class, he was smart, and he was really good-looking. I Was a Teenage Samuel Beckett: Or, My Literary Biography Problem 2012-01-11T17:47:41Z Photograph: © Alan Johnson One often hears it alleged that all politicians these days come from upper-middle-class backgrounds and are out of touch with the so-called real world. This Boy: A Memoir of a Childhood by Alan Johnson – review 2013-05-11T15:00:01Z The play, a Roundabout Theater Company production that opened on Wednesday night, begins in 2000 in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Washington. Review: ‘If I Forget,’ Clashing Currents in Jewish Identity 2017-02-22T05:00:00Z The depiction of upper-middle-class malaise and sororal suffering earned eight Emmys and four Golden Globes, and status as one of the last monocultural phenomena in an increasingly fragmented, niche entertainment landscape. “Big Little Lies” Season 2, Reviewed: Meryl, Meryl, Meryl 2019-06-09T04:00:00Z But there’s been lots of coverage of this problem among middle- and upper-middle-class parents, and I wonder if you’ve seen it changing at all. Author Jennifer Senior: “Kids have almost no responsibility, and I find that unnatural” 2014-02-03T23:59:00Z Grieving Victorians in upper-middle-class society once wore mourning clothes as a public demonstration of their private losses. A brother’s mourning clothes: I wanted a uniform of grief 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z When The Cosby Show debuted 30 years ago this fall, Bill Cosby took it on faith that TV viewers would accept a sitcom about an upper-middle-class African American family. Review: A Family Seeks Its True Colors on black-ish 2014-09-23T04:00:00Z She’s rather a better singer than Ms. Stone, and she had the character’s upper-middle-class British accent down pat. Emma Stone Takes Over in ‘Cabaret’ 2014-12-04T05:00:00Z She was born in New Jersey, in Monmouth County; in her 2010 memoir, “The Butterfly Mosque,” she describes spending her adolescence as “an upper-middle-class American white girl with bland politics and polite beliefs.” The Writer Behind a Muslim Marvel Superhero on Her Faith in Comics 2017-04-29T04:00:00Z As Pop’s presence reminds us, while Dre’s parents worked hard to provide him with an education, Dre did not inherit wealth, making his upper-middle-class status both new and fragile. What TV Says About Race and Money 2017-01-06T05:00:00Z I’ve rumbled to Brussels, made dashes to London and lingered on the ride to Zurich, where the cars are a refuge for upper-middle-class cash smugglers emptying Swiss bank accounts and suspicious customs inspectors. A Writing Retreat by Rail, From Paris to the Côte d’Azur 2014-10-24T04:00:00Z “Don’t Go Gentle” for the most part chugs along as a familiar tale of angst, dysfunction and guilt spread evenly among the members of a white upper-middle-class family. Theater Review: ‘Don’t Go Gentle,’ by Stephen Belber, at Lucille Lortel 2012-10-15T02:00:00Z Blum was raised in an upper-middle-class family in New Martinsville, West Virginia, but the disconnect he explores is less a matter of class, specifically, than of simplified stories versus complicated ones. Another Side of Appalachia 2016-02-21T05:00:00Z Ann Packer’s new novel, “The Children’s Crusade,” recounts the story of the Blairs, a privileged, upper-middle-class family, in smooth, unsurprising, white-bread prose. ‘The Children’s Crusade,’ by Ann Packer 2015-04-13T04:00:00Z Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s razor-edged and smutty comedy of upper-middle-class British manners would rate higher if it weren’t so determined to get you on its title character’s side. The 30 Best International TV Shows of the Decade 2019-12-20T05:00:00Z She plays Nicky Coles, a real estate agent, on “Grand Crew” — an NBC comedy series with an all-Black cast depicting the everyday life of upper-middle-class people without Black tragedy being at its core. Nicole Byer is nailing it 2022-08-21T04:00:00Z Waller-Bridge grew up in an upper-middle-class family with baronets on both sides. Phoebe Waller-Bridge: 'I have an appetite for transgressive women' 2018-09-08T04:00:00Z Yet as his palsy fails to improve, the hallmarks of upper-middle-class ease, which used to provide him almost smug levels of satisfaction, begin to rankle. In This Novel, a Man’s Face Becomes Distorted. His Sanity Follows. 2019-04-10T04:00:00Z “Environmentalism,” he said, “is an upper-middle-class, white movement aimed at absolution and preserving a lifestyle with a Volvo.” Charles Bowden, Lyrical Writer, Dies at 69 2014-09-03T04:00:00Z The program became a landmark because of its depiction — almost nonexistent in the entertainment landscape of that era — of an upper-middle-class African American family. Bill Cosby convicted on three counts of sexual assault 2018-04-26T04:00:00Z Houses in upper-middle-class neighborhoods tend to look like mansions, while on the East Side, whole blocks are filled with vacant lots. In Buffalo, a democratic socialist vies for mayor in a race she thought she’d already won 2021-11-01T04:00:00Z They were just a big, mostly white, mostly upper-middle-class family living in the Bay Area and trying to cope with the problems of ordinary life. 'Parenthood,' the adult in the TV family 2015-01-29T05:00:00Z Yet she also senses the insecurities behind his swaggering egotism, smartly pointing out — given his educated, upper-middle-class background — the artifice of his underdog posturing. ‘Malcolm & Marie’ Review: Fight Flub 2021-02-04T05:00:00Z In the present day, their descendants, an upper-middle-class Black man and his blue-collar white friend, stay overnight in a former slave cabin to reconnect with the past. How a 'shocking' play about slavery set off a firestorm at Santa Monica College 2023-11-03T04:00:00Z “We’re going to lose nearly four people each day to overdose. It could be homeless folks; it could be upper-middle-class folks at private schools; it could be anybody.” Overdose deaths keep rising in King County. Is a vending machine part of the solution? 2023-07-02T04:00:00Z But they still feel a bit squeezed — emblematic of the “sandwich generation” of working-age upper-middle-class adults dealing with both costly or time-consuming child care and beginning to serve as caretakers for parents. The Greatest Wealth Transfer in History Is Here, With Familiar (Rich) Winners 2023-05-14T04:00:00Z But despite being upper-middle-class and privately insured, Ms. Gupton-Jones and her husband felt they were treated insensitively. Unwanted Epidurals, Untreated Pain: Black Women Tell Their Birth Stories 2023-05-06T04:00:00Z “Virtually all of television is a canned, restricted, vanilla view of life,” he told Good Housekeeping magazine in 1998, “and the people on television are always White, upper-middle-class people wearing jackets and ties.” Jerry Springer, whose tabloid talk show became a rowdy hit, dies at 79 2023-04-27T04:00:00Z Instead, iPhone sales in the country have thrived among the sliver of upper-middle-class and rich Indians with disposable incomes, a segment of buyers that Shah says is rising. Apple Inc bets big on India as it opens first flagship store 2023-04-17T04:00:00Z He works from a study near the front door of his home in Germantown, an upper-middle-class suburb 30 minutes from Memphis. Blue state, red state: Where you live may determine whether you can work from home 2023-04-03T04:00:00Z “Nothing about labor rights. Nothing about housing. Nothing that would actually cost upper-middle-class white liberals a dime.” The Liberal Helping Conservatives Fight Race-Based Affirmative Action 2023-03-29T04:00:00Z Janice Baker, a registered dietitian in San Diego, feels that the growing concern surrounding obesity in middle-class and upper-middle-class communities is tied to body size and appearance, with parents projecting their own fears. Judging what others feed their kids is a blood sport. Why? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z Bob Harrell had built a comfortable upper-middle-class life as a produce broker selling apples and pears to grocery chains. Feds knew for years fentanyl-tainted pills from Mexican pharmacies were killing Americans 2023-03-11T05:00:00Z The Brea City Council has yet to catch up with the diversity of the upper-middle-class suburb it represents. He's the first Black council member of a former Orange County 'sundown town' 2023-03-06T05:00:00Z García Luna, 54, didn’t testify at the trial, though his wife took the stand in an apparent effort to portray their assets in Mexico as legitimately acquired and upper-middle-class, but not lavish. Mexico’s ex-public security chief convicted in US drug case 2023-02-21T05:00:00Z Kabul’s Green Zone, once a leafy upper-middle-class neighborhood, used to be an enclave for diplomats. Your Thursday Briefing 2023-02-16T05:00:00Z “Generally in our society, good moms are portrayed as white, upper-middle-class and married to men. So anyone who kind of deviates from that image is not given the same sort of benefit of the doubt.” Judging what others feed their kids is a blood sport. Why? 2023-03-14T04:00:00Z The Tubbs Fire ignited on a mid-October evening, sweeping west on 80-mph winds, through weekend homes and resort hotels, upper-middle-class neighborhoods on the city’s eastern edge and its commercial center. California wildfires are driving up home prices, gentrifying the state Frumin also wants to see more middle- and upper-middle-class African Americans moving into the ward. Perspective | Making D.C.’s Ward 3 ‘an example for all the land’ 2023-01-31T05:00:00Z “With psychological issues, we often immediately think, ‘This is an upper-middle-class white issue,’” he says. Teen dramas' track record on mental health is rough. So MTV adopted a new playbook 2023-01-26T05:00:00Z The city bumps up against upper-middle-class Alhambra, which leads into the wealthy suburb of South Pasadena, its boutiques, Apple store and sidewalk cafes crowded Sunday afternoon. A safe haven for Asian immigrants now shares in the tragedy of gun violence 2023-01-22T05:00:00Z As an officer's wife and a white, cisgender woman from an upper-middle-class background, I'm one of the most privileged military spouses out there. With the largest defense budget in world history, military families are going hungry 2023-01-16T05:00:00Z Once upon a time it was defined as the party of Main Street and the country club: white middle-class and upper-middle-class guys in gray flannel suits. Worst Republicans of 2022: It's just so hard to choose! 2022-12-28T05:00:00Z The mobilization of recruits to help fight in Ukraine, and an exodus of some highly skilled upper-middle-class workers, would have a negative effect on productivity, he said. Russia keeps its key interest rate steady amid worries of inflation. 2022-12-16T05:00:00Z Dr. Lewis grew up in an upper-middle-class family in Parkland, Fla., among few Black peers, with white friends who called him “Oreo,” he said: “Black on the outside, white on the inside, not really Black.” When Black Psychiatrists Reach Out to Teens of Color 2022-12-13T05:00:00Z Without a doubt, the temperance movement was created and led mostly by white, middle- and upper-middle-class, Protestant women. A toast to the misunderstood temperance movement on the anniversary of its demise 2022-12-06T05:00:00Z The National Retail Federation reported Thursday that 65% of upper-middle-class households making more than $100,000 a year say they are dipping into their savings to cover rising prices. Retail survey: Middle-class households struggle to cover expenses as prices rise 2022-10-07T04:00:00Z The dream is not to become upper-middle-class, with its different food, family, and friendship patterns; the dream is to live in your own class milieu, where you feel comfortable — just with more money. What does MAGA mean in 2022? An aging movement longs for an America that never was 2022-10-05T04:00:00Z In Katy, a booming upper-middle-class suburb just west of Houston bursting with office parks, new housing developments and the most expensive high school stadium in the nation, the F3 model has thrived. For Suburban Texas Men, a Workout Craze With a Side of Faith 2022-09-24T04:00:00Z Yes, we’re dropped into a very specific upper-middle-class New York gay lifestyle. With 'Bros,' Luke Macfarlane proves he's a rom-com natural. (All those Hallmark movies didn't hurt) 2022-09-01T04:00:00Z To explain the wage stagnation of upper-middle-class workers during the pandemic, some economists have suggested that affluent workers are willing to accept lower wage growth for the ability to work from home. How Pharmacy Work Stopped Being So Great 2022-08-20T04:00:00Z A stereotype persists that the brand caters chiefly to a more middle-aged, upper-middle-class demographic looking for a particular air of untroubled elegance. The queen of slow fashion on the art of a slow exit 2022-08-14T04:00:00Z Rebecca Harding Davis was a White woman born into an upper-middle-class family and educated by tutors and private schools. States may revive abortion laws from a time when women couldn’t vote 2022-07-31T04:00:00Z Zawahiri’s path to becoming one of the world’s most recognized terrorists had an unlikely beginning in an upper-middle-class, religiously diverse Cairo suburb that was home to many of Egypt’s most accomplished families. Ayman al-Zawahiri, al-Qaeda leader, killed at 71 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z He was born June 19, 1951, the son of an upper-middle-class family of doctors and scholars in the Cairo suburb of Maadi. Al-Qaida mastermind Ayman al-Zawahri, 71, reportedly killed 2022-08-01T04:00:00Z The district, which was redrawn after the 2020 Census, has a mix of fixed-income, working-class and upper-middle-class residents, many of whom live in retirement communities or gated neighborhoods, complicating efforts for candidates to go door-to-door. Rusty Bowers testified in D.C. Now he might lose his primary in Arizona. 2022-07-28T04:00:00Z The film presents suburban upper-middle-class parents and kids learning about different ways of being authentic, accepting differences and experiencing love. What to watch with your kids: ‘Nope’ and more 2022-07-22T04:00:00Z This is, after all, a work of suburban horror carefully engineered to scratch the anxieties of upper-middle-class White readers. Review | In ‘The Displacements,’ a hurricane turns the rich into refugees 2022-07-19T04:00:00Z So Glassell Park is also already the home of a not insignificant number of upper-middle-class people and it’s hardly unexpected for them to want eat a fancy meal in the immediate neighborhood. Opinion | Sorry, protesters. Picketing a restaurant won’t stop gentrification. 2022-07-14T04:00:00Z That line struck me and emphasized how Olivia’s white, upper-middle-class upbringing has shaped her world view. 4 not too deep questions for the 'White Lotus' cast 2022-06-15T04:00:00Z Step one, he says, is to set up shop in an upper-middle-class neighborhood. A trip to the GaryVee convention, where everyone is part of crypto’s 1 percent 2022-06-10T04:00:00Z They got their revenge in the Liberal Party’s upper-middle-class suburban heartland as one seat after another fell to a group of female candidates. Opinion | Australians’ big message on climate change and politics as usual 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z She may need to experience the reality of living a marginal life — far from her upper-middle-class privilege — to make a choice about it. Perspective | Ask Amy: Mom feels ‘blackmailed’ into supporting her daughter’s relationship 2022-05-24T04:00:00Z White and upper-middle-class, Jonathan Wall doesn’t reflect the communities most impacted most by the war on drugs, and he knows it. Most Americans support weed legalization. He hoped a jury would, too. 2022-05-14T04:00:00Z We are an upper-middle-class family, and she has many privileges. Perspective | Dad and daughter have a fraught relationship. What can Mom do? 2022-05-10T04:00:00Z Instead, they are likely further entrenching themselves in upper-middle-class coastal America and its perspectives. Opinion | It appears CNN and the New York Times forgot a lesson of the Trump years 2022-04-20T04:00:00Z Its congregants are a motley collection of upper-middle-class liberals, aging hippies, socially conscious millennials, lawyers and teachers. Review: Even the Unitarians are divided in Michelle Huneven's new novel, 'Search' 2022-04-19T04:00:00Z These shows often shied from dealing with serious issues facing Black people in the tradition of “The Cosby Show,” which featured an upper-middle-class Black family but rarely showed them outside their fashionable brownstone. 'Black-ish' transformed television. Especially when it 'ran into trouble' 2022-04-17T04:00:00Z The preoccupations of “Just for Us,” directed by Adam Brace, cover Edelman’s childhood in an upper-middle-class Boston suburb, in a modern Orthodox home. Jewish diversity is becoming an ever more vibrant issue onstage 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z “Not only adults,” Price says, “but especially for someone who’s not an upper-middle-class, cis white guy.” The transgender 'proud Autistic' psychologist who believes we have Autism all wrong 2022-04-07T04:00:00Z By the time everyone moved in, the new development’s three identical buildings on the intersection of Smorgovsky Tract and Chervyakova Street teemed with young, upper-middle-class families. The Battle for the Mural — and the Future of Belarus 2022-03-30T04:00:00Z Third, “The residential and employment patterns among more recent immigrants suggest that their social lives remain limited to middle- and upper-middle-class Chinese American immigrants and whites.” Opinion | Will Asian Americans Bolt From the Democratic Party? 2022-03-02T05:00:00Z But the upper-middle-class entrepreneurs and professionals who will be “totally devastated by this” number in the millions, he added. Russia’s business ties to the West took 30 years to build and one week to shatter 2022-03-04T05:00:00Z “Since 2010, there’s been a significant hardening by upper-middle-class voters against immigration and Islam, but we hadn’t seen its political effects yet,” Mr. Lebourg said. In France, a Racist Conspiracy Theory Edges Into the Mainstream 2022-02-15T05:00:00Z “I had no idea, really, that there was a prosperous, upper-middle-class Black community in New York towards the end of the 19th century, based not in Harlem, but in Brooklyn,” Fellowes said. How accurate is 'The Gilded Age's' history of New York's Black elite? We checked 2022-02-07T05:00:00Z Growing up in the upper-middle-class hamlet of Setauket, Mr. Crispin long felt like an outsider. Scandal on a Wealthy Island: A Priest, a Murder and a Mystery 2022-02-04T05:00:00Z Kruger grew up in South Pasadena, a leafy upper-middle-class suburb close to downtown Los Angeles, a daughter of two pediatricians. Kruger seeks to follow path to ‘impartial and fair justice’ 2022-02-03T05:00:00Z Other critics viewed the enterprise as little more than an indulgence of white, upper-middle-class baby boomers. Robert Bly, poet who inspired men's movement and backlash, dies 2021-11-22T05:00:00Z Hope Presbyterian Church in Austin, Texas, a largely upper-middle-class congregation of about 400, is among those that have enjoyed relative stability despite the pandemic. At many churches, pandemic hits collection plates, budgets 2022-01-16T05:00:00Z Would you agree a good percentage of Aretha fans were not aware she grew up in an upper-middle-class home, quite privileged? Aretha Franklin had her own ideas about fashion. 'Respect' lets them shine 2022-01-04T05:00:00Z Superior and Louisville are filled with middle- and upper-middle-class subdivisions with shopping centers, parks and schools. Colorado fire victims begin new year surveying destruction 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z The two towns are filled with middle- and upper-middle-class subdivisions with shopping centers, parks and schools. Thousands flee as Colorado wildfires burn hundreds of homes 2021-12-31T05:00:00Z Irvine’s residents, both new and old, were united in their ambitions for a quiet, upper-middle-class lifestyle. Are diversifying suburbs like Irvine ready for a conversation about race? 2021-12-10T05:00:00Z Despite the overall weakness, India’s stock market is rallying, and rich and upper-middle-class consumers are rushing to its malls. Weak Recovery Leaves India’s Middle Class Anxious and Frugal 2021-11-30T05:00:00Z Wood said she lived an upper-middle-class lifestyle, with nice clothing, a Mercedes-Benz and a home in Newport Beach. Homeless Orange County woman fought to sleep in the park and won — for now 2021-11-16T05:00:00Z And important for upper-middle-class taxpayers, the alternative minimum tax was lowered. Column: Trump's cap on tax deductions hurt Californians. It's time to stop the bleeding 2021-11-15T05:00:00Z It has a couple of eerie blocks almost resembling Pyongyang — empty, colossal and colonnaded — but it also has dentist’s office and chain restaurants, energy company headquarters and upper-middle-class apartments. The strange backdrop to the G-20: A Roman neighborhood built as a fascist showpiece 2021-10-27T04:00:00Z This was a concession to political reality: Democrats rely on support from upper-middle-class suburbanites in high-tax blue states. Opinion | On taxes, the Democrats’ plan looks a lot like the Trump plan 2021-10-26T04:00:00Z The area’s rugged splendor had in recent years shown signs of modern growth, and longtime residents of the upper-middle-class neighborhood had begun regarding the influx of new tenants with increasing suspicion. License plate scanners were supposed to bring peace of mind. Instead they tore the neighborhood apart. 2021-10-22T04:00:00Z Cruz’s rampage crushed the veneer of safety in Parkland, an upper-middle-class community outside Fort Lauderdale with little crime. Attorney: Cruz to plead guilty to Parkland school massacre 2021-10-15T04:00:00Z The conceptual artist Adrian Piper, who was raised among upper-middle-class Black Americans in Washington Heights, had this in mind when she designed “Funk Lessons: A Collaborative Experiment in Cross-Cultural Transfusion.” Dancing Through New York in a Summer of Joy and Grief 2021-09-15T04:00:00Z A longtime favorite, ABC's "Black-ish" follows the everyday exploits of a Black family living in a predominantly White, upper-middle-class neighborhood. Emmys 2021: A breakdown of the biggest nominated TV series 2021-09-16T04:00:00Z The show offers an inversion of the usual race/class structure in America: Kate, the upper-middle-class doctor’s daughter is Black; the other five characters are working-class White people. Keegan Theatre aims to confound expectations with its season opener ‘Good People’ 2021-09-08T04:00:00Z Ms. Brown bested Mrs. Turner among suburbanites, and relied heavily on upper-middle-class voters. Trump, Biden brands benefit from big wins in Ohio special elections 2021-08-04T04:00:00Z The brushstrokes of plot that kick off “Something New Under the Sun,” the second novel by Alexandra Kleeman, suggest the makings of a mildly satirical novel starring yet another neurotic upper-middle-class family. Review: The most sinister power in this riotously fun dystopian novel? Still Hollywood 2021-08-02T04:00:00Z “The Cosby Show,” his widely loved sitcom, portrayed a Black upper-middle-class family in the same familiar and heartwarming ways that sitcoms had long portrayed White families. Bill Cosby released from prison after sexual assault conviction is vacated by Pennsylvania Supreme Court 2021-06-30T04:00:00Z This is known as intensive parenting, and while it used to be an upper-middle-class phenomenon, it is now rising fast across all social classes. Why American Women Everywhere Are Delaying Motherhood 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Mr. Razzo grew up in a prominent upper-middle-class family in Mosul. A Path of Forgiveness After Unimaginable Loss in Iraq 2021-06-11T04:00:00Z "It's realistic in middle- and upper-middle-class households," Anderson said. Is your living room the future of hospital care? 2021-05-27T04:00:00Z “It’s realistic in middle- and upper-middle-class households,” Anderson said. Is your living room the future of hospital care? 2021-05-24T04:00:00Z A comeback will be tough if moderate middle- and upper-middle-class professionals continue to associate the party with Trump, far-right extremists and the Jan. 6. attack on the Capitol. Opinion | Stranded on Trump Island, the GOP lets Biden play the long game 2021-05-02T04:00:00Z For decades, delaying parenthood was the domain of upper-middle-class Americans, especially in big, coastal cities. Why American Women Everywhere Are Delaying Motherhood 2021-06-16T04:00:00Z Importantly for many upper-middle-class Californians, the alternative minimum tax was significantly lowered. California Democrats have a chance to flex some muscle and work to restore deductions for taxpayers 2021-04-15T04:00:00Z Last week at a vaccination center in the upper-middle-class Roma neighborhood, lines were relatively short and volunteers quickly and politely ushered elderly people through the process, sometimes in less than an hour. Mexico’s vaccine campaign faces problems, successes 2021-04-06T04:00:00Z The March 14 editorial “The tax code needs an overhaul” mentioned in order: lowest- and second-lowest quintiles of U.S. households; the rich; the wealthy; upper-income individuals; upper-middle-class suburbanites; and, again, the rich. Opinion | Readers critique The Post: Leave Catholicism out of it 2021-04-02T04:00:00Z In the popular imagination, though, middle- and even upper-middle-class Americans are overly tax-burdened. Opinion | How Biden’s tax pledge undercuts his own initiatives 2021-04-01T04:00:00Z The first 11 locations are mostly speckled in suburban, upper-middle-class areas. Amazon quietly began building a grocery chain during pandemic 2021-03-11T05:00:00Z “You are living in a White world but you have to hold on to Black culture,” he told The Post of his own upper-middle-class upbringing. Lawrence Otis Graham, author who examined prejudice and privilege in Black America, dies at 59 2021-03-02T05:00:00Z But when that era passed, he said, Hollywood found it more fashionable to cast “glamorous, petite, upper-middle-class white women as action stars. They supplanted the Black women who had paved the way.” The return of the action heroine often left out Black women. Enter Queen Latifah 2021-02-07T05:00:00Z But this narrative fails to answer two critical questions: Why did upper-middle-class and wealthy white voters — who aren't economic victims — vociferously support Trump in 2016? Trump tapped into white victimhood – leaving fertile ground for white supremacists 2021-01-10T05:00:00Z Her research provides glimpses into upper-middle-class British life in the 1920s that little resemble popular images of the roaring glitterati. Review: Cozy up your holiday reading with homages to Dame Christie and Dr. Holmes 2020-12-23T05:00:00Z That liberal coalition is seen as resting on a bedrock of upper-middle-class white voters, alongside working- and middle-class Black, Latino and Asian voters. Liberals Envisioned a Multiracial Coalition. Voters of Color Had Other Ideas. 2020-11-16T05:00:00Z In the novella, Cassie tells us she grew up in an upper-middle-class family, earned a PhD and won a coveted spot at a private university in her hometown of Washington, D.C. Review: Blistering stories of Black lives that set the record straight 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Deep in the upper-middle-class suburbs north-east of Dallas are the well-manicured towns neighboring the ultra-wealthy enclaves that George W Bush and Dallas Mavericks owner Mark Cuban call home. 'Places that will change the country': the state races that will define decades of US politics 2020-11-02T05:00:00Z My upper-middle-class family sent me and my siblings to quality colleges of our choice. Opinion | Obituaries for the American Dream 2020-11-01T04:00:00Z It might have sounded as if he were raised on a farm, but the Pence family lived in one of the expansive tract homes filled by upper-middle-class families near the center of town. Mike Pence's Indiana hometown built by a different kind of Republican 2020-10-24T04:00:00Z Hicks grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood in Oakland, where his father was a dentist and his family was well-known. Black or blue: the complex double-lives of Oakland's Black police officers 2020-10-22T04:00:00Z If Cassie’s parents were upper-middle-class, Genie’s were rich. Review: Blistering stories of Black lives that set the record straight 2020-11-10T05:00:00Z Rao also found a certain detachment when knocking on the doors of upper-middle-class Indian immigrant enclaves. 'A political awakening': south Asians to play growing role in US elections 2020-09-03T04:00:00Z The only voice for change has come from a small band of middle- and upper-middle-class parents of young men arrested in Net Nanny stings. Convicted of Sex Crimes, but With No Victims 2020-08-26T04:00:00Z Because dollar stores are heavily concentrated in poor towns and neighborhoods, many middle- and upper-middle-class consumers are unaware of their ubiquity—or of the frequency of armed robberies and shootings. The True Cost of Dollar Stores 2020-06-29T04:00:00Z The set had the aesthetics of upper-middle-class quarantine — a single room, decorated by Krasinski’s young daughters with handcrafted posters — and the segments, while often mawkish, could be genuinely sweet. The Hollow Inspiration of ‘Some Good News’ 2020-06-11T04:00:00Z Neighbors in the upper-middle-class community have formed a small newspaper for children. In Lockdown, a Neighborhood Opens Up 2020-05-30T04:00:00Z Raised in Cincinnati in an upper-middle-class family, she trotted off to prep school at Groton School and then racked up all sorts of frameable accomplishments. What if Hillary had dumped Bill? A novelist imagines a different 2016 2020-05-12T04:00:00Z Goudreau grew up in an upper-middle-class family in a quiet suburb of Calgary, Alberta, a city of more than 1 million in the shadow of the Canadian Rockies. Venezuela raid: How an ex-Green Beret and a defecting general planned to capture Maduro 2020-05-10T04:00:00Z The multi-generational series about an upper-middle-class black family, starring Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis Ross, is often ridiculously funny, sometimes surprisingly heavy and always seems to be taking the country’s pulse in real time. The five TV shows we can't get enough of this week 2020-05-04T04:00:00Z Finley is still eviscerating upper-middle-class mores, but this time he closes the distance between us and his characters; his distaste for them is held in check by his curiosity. Review: Hugh Jackman is at his best in the engrossing school-scam drama 'Bad Education' 2020-04-23T04:00:00Z Johnson was born in New York City to upper-middle-class parents on June 19, 1964. Boris Johnson: 5 things to know about the British prime minister 2020-04-07T04:00:00Z The makeup artist and her family live in an upper-middle-class neighborhood, where Lima’s 15-day quarantine hasn’t been too disruptive. Coronavirus hits rich and poor unequally in Latin America 2020-03-30T04:00:00Z “Human Capital” is also concerned with the subtle gradations of privilege, between the mega-rich Manning family and the merely upper-middle-class Hagels. Review: The threads of ‘Human Capital’ never really connect 2020-03-19T04:00:00Z She enjoyed an untroubled upper-middle-class upbringing in Connecticut and arrived at Stanford only vaguely interested in matters of social justice. Review: ‘The Gringa,’ at once a naif and a radical 2020-03-16T04:00:00Z McDowell grew up upper-middle-class, the son of a commercial real estate agent and a stay-at-home mom. The doubt of a ‘Bernie Bro’: A hard-charging Sanders supporter questions whether his tactics help or hurt 2020-03-07T05:00:00Z She looks, in other words, like an ordinary upper-middle-class woman in her late 20s who happens to be on her lunch break. Susan Fowler on life after Uber: "I’m always looking over my shoulder" 2020-02-19T05:00:00Z These lessons, said Saleem, the Roosevelt student, would be especially valuable for her school, where she says the curriculum reinforces students’ largely white, upper-middle-class worldview. Racist acts by Seattle-area students made news last year. Here’s how schools responded. 2020-02-18T05:00:00Z Because “gifted” programs are tautologically defined by the very people who benefit from them, white middle- and upper-middle-class families. All children are gifted — just in different ways 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z The nation’s most prominent journalists, from celebrity newscasters to unheralded assignment editors, were, by and large, upper-middle-class white men in grey suits. Big Swinging Brains and fashy trolls: how the world fell into a clickbait death spiral 2020-02-07T05:00:00Z He's like an upper-middle-class kid from the Five Towns of Long Island. Why does Trump love to hang with bottom-feeders, crooked lawyers and porn stars? 2020-01-28T05:00:00Z Like the Democratic party in the United States or the Social Democratic party in Germany, Labour began as a working-class party but now is dominated by university-educated, upper-middle-class professionals. Britain may be completely different to the US – but we can still learn from its election | Geoffrey Kabaservice 2019-12-18T05:00:00Z Now 34, Green said he experienced bouts of undiagnosed clinical depression growing up in Chagrin Falls, an upper-middle-class neighborhood south-east of Cleveland in which he was one of the only black students. How to make cities better with hip-hop and poetry 2019-12-04T05:00:00Z At its center are the Williamses, an upper-middle-class family in suburban Florida. ‘Waves’ review: Love, tragedy and light flow through this moving family drama 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z Trey Edward Schultz’s third feature movingly illustrates exactly that, through an upper-middle-class family in suburban Florida who experiences a terrible event. 5 must-see movies open the day before Thanksgiving at Seattle-area theaters 2019-11-27T05:00:00Z "I've definitely never seen this black family on screen before because they're an upper-middle-class family. They're not struggling to survive, they have means, but that doesn't mean that they don't have problems." A US actor making waves for black roles 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z “Racism exists in Bolivia; it existed before Evo, and it will never disappear,” said Michelle Kieffer, an insurance broker, as she sipped a cappuccino in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of the country’s administrative capital, La Paz. Ethnic Rifts in Bolivia Burst Into View With Fall of Evo Morales 2019-11-15T05:00:00Z Silver Lake, a predominantly upper-middle-class neighborhood, sits on a hill above a reservoir, and at sunset it’s especially evocative of Italian hill villages. Opinion | Can You Still #Resist When Your State’s on Fire? 2019-11-07T05:00:00Z And of course, these women I am talking about are/were upper-middle-class white women. Oregon woman quit her job to be a 1950s housewife — but man, what a lousy gig | Produced by Advertising Publications 2019-10-11T04:00:00Z That film was never made, but in the early seventies O’Brien sold a screenplay about the sex lives of sour, upper-middle-class Londoners, which became “X, Y & Zee,” starring Elizabeth Taylor and Michael Caine. Edna O’Brien Is Still Writing About Women on the Run 2019-10-07T04:00:00Z The movie follows an upper-middle-class black family shattered by a traumatic event. A US actor making waves for black roles 2019-11-26T05:00:00Z Many Egyptians, especially in upper-middle-class and affluent areas, remember how the 2011 revolts led to political and economic chaos, shattering the nation’s all-important tourism industry. In Egypt, dissent is silenced by masked men, riot police and blocked roads 2019-09-27T04:00:00Z He said that paring-back exercise is as common among lower-middle-class wage-earners who realize they will have less to live on as it is upper-middle-class empty-nesters who downsize from a house to a condo. Should You Spend, or Save, as if You’ll Live Forever? 2019-09-12T04:00:00Z That is true, also, for arguments of “respectability politics,” the idea that to be respected, black people must conduct themselves like upper-middle-class white people. Opinion | Black girls can’t dress their way out of racist or sexist policies 2019-09-06T04:00:00Z This is, and the author owns up to it, a deeply upper-middle-class, white and East Coast book. Review: What a family learned by ditching their smartphone-addicted lives to roam the world 2019-08-31T04:00:00Z Though she grew up in an upper-middle-class neighborhood and her father is a university professor, the public schools she attended were racially and economically mixed. UW psychologist Kristina Olson thought the MacArthur Foundation had the wrong ‘genius’ 2019-09-01T04:00:00Z Nestled on the Front Range of the Rockies, the city of Crystal was a largely upper-middle-class paradise, chock full of health-conscious and socially conscious — meaning, of course, impeccably progressive — Coloradans. Opinion | An all-too-real parable of ‘privilege-hoarding’ 2019-08-30T04:00:00Z Unlike Alex, I grew up in majority-white, upper-middle-class college towns that exposed me to all the pathways to success that lay outside pure academic achievement. Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian-Americans? 2019-08-28T04:00:00Z They Don’t Teach This is a fascinating examination of her multiple identities – British and Nigerian, a girl in a boy’s world, footballer and academic, a kid from an estate with upper-middle-class parents, a God-fearing rebel. 'A lot of the England team still haven't apologised': Eni Aluko on life after whistleblowing 2019-08-24T04:00:00Z Born and raised in Baton Rouge to a white, Catholic, upper-middle-class family, Prejean lived a happy, suburban and somewhat cloistered existence even before she decided to enter the Sisters of St. Joseph convent at 18. Review: Sister Helen Prejean traces a slow journey to justice in 'River of Fire' 2019-08-09T04:00:00Z The scene was a 10-hour drive and a world away from the life he lived growing up in a leafy, upper-middle-class suburb of Dallas. El Paso suspect appears to have posted anti-immigrant screed 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z Many of my peers, upper-middle-class Paulistas, are anglophiles, people who appreciate Britain as the homeland of ideas of liberalism, free markets and multiculturalism – all reinforced by the soft power of British pop culture. 'Something resembling hell': how does the rest of the world view the UK? 2019-08-04T04:00:00Z In an upper-middle-class neighborhood of two-story homes with neatly manicured lawns, an F.B.I. agent was stationed outside the house and prevented reporters from knocking on the door. El Paso Shooting: Massacre at a Crowded Walmart in Texas Leaves 20 Dead 2019-08-03T04:00:00Z It also features two white characters, a police officer and an upper-middle-class man played by the same actor. The director was fired, the play never opened. Now, questions of race, power and art 2019-07-22T04:00:00Z A double murder at the home of an upper-middle-class family in India is investigated in the new two-part true-crime documentary “Behind Closed Doors.” What’s on TV, July 14-20: Gina Torres in ‘Pearson,’ the moon landing, the bio-pic ‘Stan & Ollie’ and more 2019-07-12T04:00:00Z It is also an acute portrait of the dynamics of upper-middle-class Manhattan in which everyone is equally hideous. Profiling the profiler: an interview with Taffy Brodesser-Akner 2019-06-18T04:00:00Z He is prone to throw a veritable fit of sarcastic glee when upper-middle-class critics place the plaster of Mann and Eliot beside the marble of Proust and Joyce. Conclusive Evidence 1998-12-21T05:00:00Z A defense official also said there were nine suicide bombers — not seven, as initially believed — and that most were well-educated, some holding master’s degrees, and hailed from middle- or upper-middle-class families. As new details of Sri Lanka attackers emerge, survivors call for the return of a strongman 2019-04-24T04:00:00Z Vox voters are, for the most part, middle- and upper-middle-class men disenchanted with the PP, according to Spain’s Centre for Sociological Investigations. The shocking rape trial that galvanised Spain’s feminists – and the far right 2019-04-23T04:00:00Z A much higher percentage of the new admits were either from middle-class and upper-middle-class backgrounds or had been filtered through middle-class and upper-middle-class institutions. Opinion | Affirmative Action: Personal Stories 2019-04-06T04:00:00Z Bush was born into privilege, and his future wife lived a comfortable upper-middle-class childhood in Rye, N.Y. Review | Behind the matronly image, an influential first lady 2019-04-05T04:00:00Z Can an upper-middle-class guy relate to the poor and lower-class Americans? Opinion | Trump has given rich candidates a bad name 2019-03-19T04:00:00Z Investigators said Kraft returned 17 hours later, arriving at the upper-middle-class shopping center where the spa was located in a chauffeured 2015 blue Bentley. Robert Kraft and others could have prostitution charges dropped — but there’s a catch “Wanda” isn’t about some upper-middle-class suburbanite or hairy hippie hero; it’s about a woman with no prospects, enduring abuse while trying to find a reasonable facsimile of freedom. New video: ‘Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse’ sets the standard for superhero films 2019-03-17T04:00:00Z “It seems ludicrous that basically upper-middle-class white kids are given advantages because of their capacity to play minor sports that are meaningless to most people,” he said. College Admissions: Vulnerable, Exploitable, and to Many Americans, Broken 2019-03-15T04:00:00Z At the private Avila clinic in an upper-middle-class neighborhood of Caracas, a generator kept a few areas running, such as the emergency room. In Venezuela, massive blackout continues as Maduro blames U.S. for outages 2019-03-08T05:00:00Z The family enjoyed a comfortable upper-middle-class life, until political unrest in the newly independent Morocco forced them to leave. Spain’s Watergate: inside the corruption scandal that changed a nation 2019-03-01T05:00:00Z Kraft returned 17 hours later, arriving at the upper-middle-class shopping center where the spa was located in a chauffeured 2015 blue Bentley, the documents said. Robert Kraft pleads not guilty to charges of soliciting sex from a prostitute 2019-02-28T05:00:00Z People who live in Forest, just west of Lynchburg, describe it as being nestled between woodlands and farms, a quaint area that attracts upper-middle-class families. Confederate flag incident at Virginia high school sparks concern of racist behavior 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z The spa Kraft allegedly visited is in a busy, upper-middle-class shopping center with neighbors that include a dentist, a real estate office, surf and bike shops and a supermarket. Fans of Patriots' rivals travel to Florida spa where Robert Kraft allegedly solicited sex 2019-02-24T05:00:00Z One problem was that some of the wealth tax plans kicked in at a relatively low level, meaning a vast number of upper-middle-class people faced its nuisance and expense. Elizabeth Warren Wants a Wealth Tax. How Would That Even Work? 2019-02-18T05:00:00Z DUNN: There was an acknowledgment that not everyone comes from an upper-middle-class upbringing. The Power of Raw, Honest Stories About Money 2019-02-15T05:00:00Z It evolved into the National Caucus of Labor Committees, an organization largely made up of young upper-middle-class people who espoused Mr. LaRouche’s Marxist views. Lyndon LaRouche, Cult Figure Who Ran for President 8 Times, Dies at 96 2019-02-13T05:00:00Z If Mr. Carter’s Vanity Fair concerned itself with the vicissitudes of the power elite, Mr. Moss zeroed in on the preoccupations of his upper-middle-class readers. Goodbye, New York. Adam Moss Is Leaving the Magazine He Has Edited for 15 Years. 2019-01-15T05:00:00Z “It’s like an anthropological study—about men, about humility. The group is a mixture of upper-middle-class people from Leblon and poor kids from the favela, and bodysurfing is where we meet.” The Rush of Bodysurfing in Rio: A Traveler’s Guide 2019-01-03T05:00:00Z The new trappings of intensive parenting are largely fixtures of white, upper-middle-class American culture, but researchers say the expectations have permeated all corners of society, whether or not parents can achieve them. The Relentlessness of Modern Parenting 2018-12-25T05:00:00Z For one thing, Judith and Tom Bowles lived an upper-middle-class life, and her father was rich. Julia Louis-Dreyfus Acts Out 2018-12-10T05:00:00Z David Leonhardt uses his own experience attending Yale to argue that loan forgiveness for upper-middle-class students is unnecessary. Opinion | Forgiving All Student Loans: A Bold Idea, or Welfare for the Well-Off? 2018-12-01T05:00:00Z The tax law pushed millions of upper-middle-class households from itemizing deductions into a larger standard deduction. Charities Brace for Tax-Driven Dip in Year-End Giving 2018-11-27T05:00:00Z Playas de Tijuana, as the area is known, is an upper-middle-class enclave, and residents appeared worried about crime and sanitation. More caravan migrants arrive in Tijuana, brace for long stay 2018-11-15T05:00:00Z They are the kind of nice, upper-middle-class, fast-talking, attractive white couple who frequently populate this kind of film. ‘Instant Family’: a heartwarming and hilarious adoption tale with Mark Wahlberg, Rose Byrne 2018-11-14T05:00:00Z They passed a tax-cut bill that many initially touted but which could cost Republican seats in suburban areas because it limited real estate tax deductions that are popular in upper-middle-class enclaves. Anxiety high in campaign’s final days as voters prepare to render judgment on Trumpism 2018-11-03T04:00:00Z Johns Creek’s median income is more than $107,000 a year, according to census data, and these worries match the city’s upper-middle-class vibe. Fake news and Kim Jong-un: US media wars play out in suburban Georgia 2018-10-25T04:00:00Z In DC, one police district was officially exempt from Operation Ceasefire: the city’s Second District, which included middle- and upper-middle-class white neighbourhoods. How 20 years of stop and search has widened America’s racial divide 2018-10-09T04:00:00Z A student from an upper-middle-class background remembers seeing the mostly white faces and white professors in his classes and wondering why he was the exception. Statue wars: what should we do with troublesome monuments? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z But much of the rest of the “comedy” in “Cynthia” is awfully bland, riffing on the shallow materialism of the upper-middle-class. Review: Monster-baby horror-comedy ‘Cynthia’ has few worthwhile moments 2018-08-30T04:00:00Z Even as California has drifted increasingly Democratic, this inland, upper-middle-class suburb has remained solidly Republican. Duncan Hunter’s Indictment in California Opens the Door for a Long-Shot Challenger 2018-08-23T04:00:00Z A critical success, “black-ish” follows the Johnsons, an upper-middle-class family living in a mostly white suburb. Kenya Barris, Creator of ‘Black-ish,’ Will Leave ABC Studios in August 2018-07-28T04:00:00Z The wildfire tore through Mati, an upper-middle-class seaside town outside Athens and a popular destination for foreign tourists and nearby residents looking for a quick escape from city life. Greek prime minister takes blame for high death toll from wildfire 2018-07-27T04:00:00Z As the upper-middle-class student says in the story: “Our experience of racism is worse. It’s subliminal. The form of racism that makes you ignorant about your subjugation.” Statue wars: what should we do with troublesome monuments? 2018-09-26T04:00:00Z Lee told me she believes that her very decision to write about the plight of middle-aged, upper-middle-class, straight white men — to “center their experiences,” she said — might be enough to trigger a backlash. Young Jean Lee’s Unsafe Spaces 2018-07-18T04:00:00Z I wanted the characters to be working-class, because so often the characters in novels that I’ve read are white and upper-middle-class with white, upper-middle-class problems. Tommy Orange: ‘There’s a monolithic version of what a Native American is supposed to be’ 2018-06-30T04:00:00Z “For people to remain in the middle class or achieve an upper-middle-class life,” Mr. Hunter says, “they have to go through the credentialing institutions of our society.” The Man Who Discovered ‘Culture Wars’ 2018-05-25T04:00:00Z Persky grew up in an upper-middle-class home in San Francisco’s leafy Lake Street neighborhood, the middle son of a psychiatrist father and a mother who taught French. AP Exclusive: California judge in rape case has no regrets 2018-05-18T04:00:00Z At summer Scout camp and weekend camporees, the socioeconomic diversity was extreme compared with my generally upper-middle-class congregation. Opinion | Mormon Church retreats from the Boy Scouts — and reality 2018-05-09T04:00:00Z She also acknowledges that, as a “nice upper-middle-class white girl”, her relationship to the bottle could be seen as merely a cause for concern. Whisky, ink and the road to ruin 2018-04-12T04:00:00Z But as middle- and upper-middle-class families like the Shahverdians face college prices in the hundreds of thousands of dollars, more of them are looking for ways to spend less for their children’s quality education. Middle-Class Families Increasingly Look to Community Colleges 2018-04-05T04:00:00Z A critical hit, “black-ish” centers on the Johnsons, an upper-middle-class family living in a mostly white suburb. Kenya Barris, Creator of ‘Black-ish,’ Is Said to Seek an Exit From ABC 2018-04-06T04:00:00Z India’s largest retail group, Future Group, which caters to upper-middle-class consumers, said 2016 was the year its women customers started spending more than men on apparel and shoes in its more than 250 outlets. India’s Women Gain Consumer Clout 2018-04-01T04:00:00Z “Even kids who come from middle-class and upper-middle-class communities literally don’t feel safe in schools.” Opinion | A school shooting could happen anywhere. That’s why students from everywhere are marching. 2018-03-21T04:00:00Z As Olivier Roy argues in his recent book, “Jihad and Death,” they tend to be young men from middle- or upper-middle-class backgrounds, often with a history of petty crime. Perspective | Why ‘they’ seem more violent than ‘we’ are 2018-02-16T05:00:00Z I notice that Mr. Turner is upper-middle-class and white, an economic and racial segement of our population statistically under-represented in our prisons. Activists Try to Recall Judge in Stanford Sex Attack Case. Some Say They’ve Gone Too Far. 2018-02-02T05:00:00Z The article was mainly about upper-middle-class families that may no longer be able itemize deductions in Maryland. Opinion | Tax reform will hit middle-income Marylanders hardest 2018-01-31T05:00:00Z But today in the city, that is primarily true only for middle-class or upper-middle-class patients seeking help with their addiction. Opioid Addiction Knows No Color, but Its Treatment Does 2018-01-12T05:00:00Z Toward the other end of the economic spectrum, many upper-middle-class professionals in urban states will get a tax increase. As a Democratic wave builds, Republicans hope a tax bill can keep them afloat 2017-12-22T05:00:00Z Those districts disproportionately house the upper-middle-class families that would most likely face tax increases if the bill becomes law, because they currently deduct such a large amount in state and local income and property taxes. Republican Tax Bill Faces New Uncertainty Ahead of Expected Vote 2017-12-14T05:00:00Z A young man places a curse on a modern, upper-middle-class family, who must contemplate a horrible crime if they wish to break it. The 10 Best Actors of the Year 2017-12-07T05:00:00Z Both bills also reshape international tax law and raise taxes on upper-middle-class wage earners in high-tax states such as New York and New Jersey. Passage of Senate Tax Bill Puts R&D Tax Credit in Doubt 2017-12-04T05:00:00Z Stoddart grew up in Florida with upper-middle-class parents who got drunk every day after 5 p.m. Man aids the ‘invisible people’ in need in Appalachia 2017-12-03T05:00:00Z But upper-middle-class people like Ms. Cornwell and her husband are expected to pay full price, feeling the blunt force of what experts and health economists agree are unbearable escalations. A Radical Move: Giving Up Income to Get Health Insurance 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z The taxpayers who will be taking the biggest hit are upper-middle-class homeowners living in relatively costly coastal states, especially California, New York and New Jersey. Flynn plea agreement marks huge step in Mueller investigation, as GOP struggles with tax bill 2017-12-01T05:00:00Z But in the Senate, the emerging bill suggests party leaders are less concerned with the potential fallout of eliminating breaks that benefit upper-middle-class taxpayers in high-tax states such as New York and California. Senate Republicans Will Diverge From House in Sweeping Tax Rewrite 2017-11-08T05:00:00Z The apparently normal upper-middle-class families of the two high school students seemed an unlikely setting to produce such violence under their noses, without their noticing anything awry about their sons. The anatomy of mass shootings: a legacy of failure 2017-11-10T05:00:00Z His family lived a comfortable, upper-middle-class life, with his father running a software company that specializes in billings. Texas gunman's long slide to mass murder began when he attacked his own family – LA Times 2017-11-07T05:00:00Z She grew up in an upper-middle-class home, the fifth of six children. Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, a Humanist On and Off the Page 2017-10-16T04:00:00Z Preliminary analyses of the tax framework produced by the “Big Six” Republican tax working group last month were faulted for overwhelmingly benefiting the rich while potentially increasing taxes on some upper-middle-class families. Mnuchin, Contradicting Trump, Says Estate Tax Repeal Will Help ‘Rich People’ 2017-10-13T04:00:00Z Wall Street set the agenda, the upper-middle-class went along, and together they managed to get the base to fall in line. Perspective | Trump’s tax plan gives Wall Street everything it wants — and that’s bad news for them 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Wiping out the deduction would raise taxes for many upper-middle-class voters in states like New York, New Jersey, California and Pennsylvania. A week that illustrated why coverage of Trump is mostly negative 2017-10-06T04:00:00Z Ross grew up in an upper-middle-class family in New Jersey, where she showed a certain scrappiness early on. Perspective | Forget passion. This tutoring business grew out of a mother’s desperation. 2017-09-29T04:00:00Z In the new movie, Ben Stiller plays Brad Sloan, who runs a small nonprofit consulting firm in Sacramento and quietly enjoys a secure upper-middle-class life. Mike White on the pathetic and the privilege in 'Brad's Status' 2017-09-25T04:00:00Z “Downton Abbey” star Elizabeth McGovern returns to post World War I Britain in a revival of “Time and the Conways,” a play about a well-to-do upper-middle-class family that toys with the idea of time. Springsteen and SpongeBob lead Broadway’s fall season 2017-09-05T04:00:00Z He and his fellow Free Officers played on their ostensibly humble origins, though most of the dozen or so of them were from middle-class or upper-middle-class origins. The tragic tale of Egypt's decline: Is it also the story of America's future? 2017-08-27T04:00:00Z Madison grew up with two older siblings and two younger ones in an upper-middle-class New Jersey suburb about an hour outside New York, a place where college is a foregone conclusion. Review | ‘I’m not right’ — the turmoil and death of a college athlete who seemed to have it all 2017-08-11T04:00:00Z This would take wage pressure off of low-paid jobs, and increase the competition for upper-middle-class professional positions. Department of Justification 2017-02-28T05:00:00Z Some Republican operatives also see the affirmative action initiative as a strategic play by the White House to rally middle-class and upper-middle-class white voters, especially as the Republican agenda on Capitol Hill has stalled. Sessions’s move to take on affirmative action energizes Trump’s base 2017-08-02T04:00:00Z He tells the story of a serial killer who killed women, and usually upper-middle-class, attractive women. Patriarchy and toxic masculinity are dominating America under Trump 2017-08-01T04:00:00Z Osberg grew up near Philadelphia in an upper-middle-class family of Italian immigrants. Perspective | Meet the woman who gives bridge tips to Warren Buffett and Bill Gates 2017-07-28T04:00:00Z In Caracas, the strike was most pronounced in the eastern neighborhoods, a middle- and upper-middle-class bastion. Opposition strike paralyzes parts of Venezuela as fears of violence mount 2017-07-20T04:00:00Z Children raised in upper-middle-class families do well in life. How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Chinese immigration brokers say upper-middle-class investors have flocked to the program in recent years as their incomes increased and their real estate appreciated. ‘Everyone in China has the American Dream’ – and a popular path to it may disappear 2017-07-07T04:00:00Z In its portrayal of an upper-middle-class black family, the show was uplifting and aspirational — not just for African Americans but for the whole country. Opinion | After the mistrial, what’s left of Bill Cosby’s legacy? 2017-06-19T04:00:00Z Over the years, however, Congress failed to modify the AMT sufficiently to keep it from ensnaring millions of middle- and upper-middle-class taxpayers. Perspective | Did Trump get big tax refunds after 2005? 2017-06-16T04:00:00Z “As a chronicler of contemporary America’s most unfashionable social stratum — upper-middle-class WASPs,” New York Times drama critic Frank Rich wrote in his review of “The Dining Room,” “this playwright has no current theatrical peer.” A.R. Gurney, playwright who portrayed the fading WASP culture, dies at 86 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In the upper-middle-class America I now inhabit, I witness extraordinary efforts by parents to secure an elite future status for their children: tutors, coaches and weekend lessons in everything from French to fencing. How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z My high school, like many, included students from upper-middle-class neighborhoods as well as working-class ones like mine. Graduation seats: ‘Slap in the face’ 2017-06-12T04:00:00Z In upper-middle-class and wealthy neighborhoods, in particular, they are too busy doing other things, like playing sports, studying, and following a full schedule of activities booked by their parents. Perspective | A lazy summer for teenagers: Why aren’t more of them working? 2017-06-09T04:00:00Z But the image that some people have of Phil as pampered and upper-middle-class image was wrong. With Phil Mickelson, it's always an adventure - Golf Digest 2017-06-11T04:00:00Z Like many of his plays, it examined the furnishings, customs and emotional fragility of upper-middle-class society in vignettes spanning several decades. A.R. Gurney, playwright who portrayed the fading WASP culture, dies at 86 2017-06-15T04:00:00Z In fact, upper-middle-class status is passed down to the next generation more effectively than in the past, and in the United States more than in other countries. How the middle class hoards wealth and opportunity for itself 2017-07-15T04:00:00Z Sewell and her husband were fans of “The Cosby Show,” which focused on the life of an upper-middle-class African American family. “We really related to that show,” said Sewell, a retired educator with a PhD. ‘I said, I trust you’: Bill Cosby accuser Andrea Constand takes the stand 2017-06-06T04:00:00Z The key settings are Cambridge in all its ancient academic glory, a large, upper-middle-class home in suburban London and the ever-so-slightly crumbling mansion of Wiltshire landed gentry. 'Maurice': Unconventional love, conformity and isolation amid Britain's privileged classes 2017-06-01T04:00:00Z “Those things are treatable, and upper-middle-class parents generally get their kids treated,” he said. The Addicts Next Door 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Bob Schaeffer of FairTest, a nonprofit advocacy organization, put his criticism bluntly: “When you pour most of your money into your top-tier scholarship, you are giving that money to upper-middle-class white kids.” Florida’s Bright Futures program aids scholars 2017-05-29T04:00:00Z Perhaps that’s because the mortgage-interest deduction overwhelmingly benefits the sorts of upper-middle-class voters who make up the donor base of both parties and who generally fail to acknowledge themselves to be beneficiaries of federal largess. How Homeownership Became the Engine of American Inequality 2017-05-09T04:00:00Z The winners include high-income earners, upper-middle-class Americans without pre-existing health conditions, and people wanting less comprehensive health coverage. Harborview could lose $627M under new health-care law, executive director says 2017-05-05T04:00:00Z If upper-middle-class students are drawn away to public colleges, private ones may close. Opinion | The Cuomo College Fiasco 2017-04-14T04:00:00Z The privilege critique helps to remind that white upper-middle-class status in America should not provide a default stand-in for normality, leaving everyone else vying for best supporting actor. Review | The last thing on ‘privilege’ you’ll ever need to read 2017-03-23T04:00:00Z It didn’t make her feel bad, exactly, but she was aware that she came from one of the poorer families in her upper-middle-class Orange County, Calif., neighborhood. Basing Life on What You Can Afford 2017-03-19T04:00:00Z In particular, it hits many upper-middle-class families in high-tax states because it denies the state and local tax deduction and personal exemptions. Analysis | Everyone hates this tax. But without it, Trump would barely have paid any. 2017-03-17T04:00:00Z Now she is almost 60, raised in upper-middle-class comfort and living in working-class stress. Fear, hope and deportations 2017-03-18T04:00:00Z It would offer new financial benefits for the upper-middle-class and the rich. G.O.P. Health Bill Would Cut Funding for Poor and Taxes on Rich 2017-03-06T05:00:00Z The charter-parent profile in District 4 is somewhat different, with many middle- and upper-middle-class parents. Could the L.A. school board's balance of power tip pro-charter? 2017-03-05T05:00:00Z But upper-middle-class men aren’t brought up to parade their masculinity, which is entwined with ideas of restraint honed by generations of military forebears. Hats off to Justin Trudeau, the only world leader able to strip off with dignity 2017-03-02T05:00:00Z In many parts of the country, pockets of unimmunized children tend to be in white, upper-middle-class neighborhoods, including in Austin, said Anna Dragsbaek, who heads the Immunization Partnership, a Houston-based immunization advocacy group. Trump energizes the anti-vaccine movement in Texas 2017-02-20T05:00:00Z Second, even in the age of surging blue-collar populism, upper-middle-class suburbanites haven’t lost their influence, and they generally like their public schools and regard school choice as a threat rather than a promise. The outsized outcry over Betsy DeVos 2017-02-09T05:00:00Z Basically, everything that conscientious upper-middle-class Democrats were already doing. Opinion | The crucial fight that the anti-Trump resistance is forgetting 2017-02-02T05:00:00Z In “Ordinary People,” Robert Redford’s 1980 drama about the emptiness lurking beneath the facade of white, upper-middle-class propriety, Moore played Beth Jarrett, a model wife and mother permanently warped by tragedy. Mary Tyler Moore on film: In 'Ordinary People,' an extraordinary transformation 2017-01-26T05:00:00Z For some people, Trump’s attack on Lewis — as well as his inaccurate description of Atlanta, a longtime haven for middle- and upper-middle-class African Americans — brought it all back. Trump’s feud with John Lewis echoes a long, difficult relationship with African Americans 2017-01-15T05:00:00Z Variety reported that a conversation prompted by Lear inspired an April episode that explored the upper-middle-class family’s financial insecurities and varying opinions about gender roles. Norman Lear is back on TV with ‘One Day at a Time.’ But his influence never left. 2017-01-10T05:00:00Z Soli finds work, quietly observing the strange customs of an upper-middle-class Berkeley family of three. Shanthi Sekaran’s ‘Lucky Boy’: one child, three loving parents 2017-01-12T05:00:00Z In fact, as Urban Institute education expert Matthew M. Chingos explained on The Post’s higher-education blog, its benefits would largely flow to middle- and upper-middle-class families, not to the neediest. Cuomo’s free-tuition plan isn’t progressive 2017-01-09T05:00:00Z I told myself it was just because I was someone from a working-class background in an upper-middle-class milieu. Carrie Fisher showed the way. I want to acknowledge my own mental struggles | Deborah Orr 2017-01-04T05:00:00Z Here in Henderson County, an upper-middle-class patch of western North Carolina where solid suburban homes stand next to hilly apple orchards, Mr. Trump’s tone did not appeal, but the underlying message hit home. In a North Carolina Town, Terrorism Abroad Raises Apprehension 2016-12-23T05:00:00Z In layman’s terms, the injection of funds will allow teams to bolster the league’s upper-middle-class — the Osvaldo Alonsos and Roman Torres’ of the world. Seattle-Toronto is an MLS Cup of firsts, plus other talking points from Don Garber's State of the League address 2016-12-09T05:00:00Z Yoga can seem sort of a pricey upper-middle-class white thing. How hip-hop legend Russell Simmons plans to save the world with yoga 2016-12-02T05:00:00Z For Trump it meant leaving behind both his school and the Trump family home, located in the upper-middle-class neighborhood of Jamaica Estates. Will Trump's former neighborhood vote for him? 'Unequivocally, absolutely not' 2016-11-07T05:00:00Z If you’re an upper-middle-class Republican who is uneasy about Trump, you can find refuge at the Starbucks on State Street, where lawyers and corporate professionals pick up iced lattes on their way to office parks. In Pennsylvania, Trump’s call for radical change is cheered and feared 2016-11-06T04:00:00Z But in this enclave of white, upper-middle-class Republicans, the party’s presidential nominee still faces a barrier that will be difficult to clear. ‘He’s not one of us’: Trump is still having trouble winning over many Republicans 2016-11-01T04:00:00Z The South, particularly the middle- and upper-middle-class South, has always prided itself on politeness. A Somber Charleston Reflects on Race as 2 Murder Trials Begin 2016-10-30T04:00:00Z His words conjured an image of upper-middle-class leisure cyclists who zip through suburban neighborhoods on weekend mornings in a blur of brightly colored spandex. Are bike lanes racist and classist? That’s the debate in South Africa. 2016-10-27T04:00:00Z Dawn is, however reluctantly, more accepting, and ready to get on with their upper-middle-class life and drown her disappointment in profligate spending and drinking. MOVIE REVIEW: ‘American Pastoral’ film lacks the tragedy of Philip Roth’s novel 2016-10-20T04:00:00Z Specifically, upper-middle-class and upper-class people gazed at the faces of others for a fifth of a second less than members of lower social classes. Social attitudes to faces 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Her do-or-die goal was to cut down Mr. Trump among doubtful white upper-middle-class voters. And the Winner of the Trump-Clinton Debate Was . . . 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z "You mention apprenticeships and people say, 'I can't find a plumber,' which is the upper-middle-class view of apprenticeships," Hoffman says. U.S. Goes to School For Apprenticeships 2016-09-27T04:00:00Z Well I felt like there’s sort of a version of maturity and more specifically a kind of American maturity that to me is sort of like an upper-middle-class version of American life. Author Courtney Martin celebrates millennials who are redefining the American dream 2016-09-13T04:00:00Z Clinton grew up in Park Ridge, Illinois, an upper-middle-class suburb of Chicago, but her family had not been financially stable for very long. Hillary Clinton’s Patriotism 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z This time, working-class people spent a tenth of a second longer looking at faces than did upper-middle-class people—a difference that did not apply when the same people looked at inanimate objects. Social attitudes to faces 2016-10-11T04:00:00Z Its little charges are mainly from white, upper-middle-class families, with parents who work in industries like law and finance—types most likely to picture their children as part of a globalised world. Babes among dragons 2016-09-08T04:00:00Z On the higher end, a shabka typically consist of 150 grams of gold for middle-class and upper-middle-class families, or as much as $8,000. Egypt’s Money Woes Hit a Touchstone of Marriage 2016-09-07T04:00:00Z She lives in an upper-middle-class neighborhood, with good restaurants and that Mediterranean climate. Officials Spent Big on Olympics, but Rio Natives Are Paying the Price 2016-08-14T04:00:00Z Growing up in the upper-middle-class suburb of Park Ridge, Ill., Hillary Rodham — whose mother had been raised in poverty and whose Depression-era father preached frugality — babysat and held summer jobs beginning when she was 13. When Her Family Needed Money, Hillary Clinton Faced Stark Choices 2016-08-10T04:00:00Z Ms. Vetrano left her house near the edge of the preserve and jogged past the upper-middle-class homes, exchanging chatty text messages with a friend. Grieving and Hunting for an ‘Evil Person’ After a Jogger Is Killed 2016-08-04T04:00:00Z Mr. Hutchings skimmed through the neighborhood’s hodgepodge of upper-middle-class wealth and suburban decay. Underwater in the Las Vegas Desert, Years After the Housing Crash 2016-08-02T04:00:00Z State officials, as they did last time, framed this year’s opt-out movement as largely a middle- and upper-middle-class phenomenon. On English Tests, New York City Students Match Peers Across State 2016-07-29T04:00:00Z Most important of all, public-sector jobs seldom pay enough to sustain an upper-middle-class lifestyle. Africa’s real land grab 2016-07-21T04:00:00Z According to a Center for Public Integrity analysis, 2.6 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy lack high-speed Internet, compared to 11.9 percent of the poor. A simple change that could help solve one of the biggest problems facing poor people 2016-07-15T04:00:00Z Even some upper-middle-class Turks are looking at property abroad. As Erdogan Sculpts New Turkish Identity, Turks Look at His Work With Unease 2016-07-11T04:00:00Z That Blossburg is fighting this problem shows how much this national epidemic has spread, from urban areas and upper-middle-class suburbs, to rural areas far from any city. Addict-turned-mayor calls for new kind of war on drugs 2016-07-02T04:00:00Z The living room cupboards of upper-middle-class households are so well stocked with imported whiskey, gin and vodka that Gujaratis are often described as India’s heaviest closet drinkers. More Indian states are banning liquor, although that hasn't stopped the drinking 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Fata got hooked on prescription pills in his home state of Texas, where he grew up in what he describes as an upper-middle-class family. How cracking down on America's painkiller capital led to a heroin crisis 2016-05-25T04:00:00Z Still, air travel had been an upper-middle-class activity in 1970, and now is affordable to the masses. What Was the Greatest Era for American Innovation? A Brief Guided Tour 2016-05-13T04:00:00Z And each felt like a rebuke of the vertiginous affluence and physical beauty of soaps like “Dallas” and “Dynasty” and a rejoinder to the upper-middle-class comfort of “The Cosby Show.” TV’s Dwindling Middle Class 2016-04-27T04:00:00Z The setting is a well-furnished, comfortably upper-middle-class planet that vaguely resembles our own, albeit with conspicuously more flowers, swimming pools and exercise equipment. 'Mother's Day' is a monotonous and predictable group therapy session 2016-04-28T04:00:00Z Despite his success, Dre feels ill at ease living in an upper-middle-class, largely white suburb—and at sea as a father. “Black-ish” Transforms the Family Sitcom 2016-04-25T04:00:00Z You don’t have to openly state that you’re handing money to upper-middle-class families to do things they were going to do anyway, usually to enrich some industry or another. Taxation Without Exasperation 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z After watching them for two more days, Foos summed up, “Conclusion: Educated, upper-middle-class older couple who enjoy a tremendous sex life.” The Voyeur’s Motel 2016-04-04T04:00:00Z Cruise any upper-middle-class neighborhood and you would swear RXs are given as housewarming gifts. Video Review: Lexus Adds a Few Twists to the New RX350 2016-03-17T04:00:00Z They focused largely on holding rallies and doing local interviews in suburban counties populated by upper-middle-class white voters who, they felt, identified with the candidate. Marco Rubio ends presidential run 2016-03-15T04:00:00Z The show centers on a multigenerational African American family dealing with living in a predominantly white, upper-middle-class community. ABC comedy 'black-ish' takes on police brutality 2016-02-24T05:00:00Z We could move back to an income tax far more like that of 1913—one that imposes a tolerable burden on upper-middle-class families and the truly rich while leaving the rest of us completely untouched. Taxation Without Exasperation 2016-04-08T04:00:00Z It is as naive to consider incomes above $100,000 as constituting wealth as it is to believe that “upper-middle-class” families are without struggle when it comes to financing college. These ‘upper-middle-class’ families still need help with college 2016-02-15T05:00:00Z “They like to be in neighborhoods where there are a lot of upper-middle-class consumers,” Mushkin said. Costco, Trader Joe’s further divide regional shopping market 2016-02-14T05:00:00Z Tracing the fortunes of an upper-middle-class family, the quartet begins in 1937 and covers a decade; a fifth novel, All Change, skips ahead to 1956. Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read 2016-01-30T05:00:00Z That day, I was looking for a place to sleep in an upper-middle-class neighborhood. Reflecting on the Legacy of Egypt's Revolution 2016-01-25T05:00:00Z Joan Didion, a student of Hemingway and Fitzgerald and a steel-edged bricoleur of upper-middle-class fantasy, wrote obsessively of flights and hotels. Has the Internet Made Air Travel Irrelevant? 2016-02-01T05:00:00Z Still, even Zandi worries that a significant slump in stock prices would demoralize wealthy and upper-middle-class investors, who are the biggest shoppers and owners of stock. Is the next recession on its way? 2016-01-10T05:00:00Z A neighbor who lives about two blocks from the house, in an upper-middle-class subdivision, said by telephone that the commotion started about 3:40 a.m. Mexican drug lord ‘El Chapo’ recaptured months after brazen escape 2016-01-08T05:00:00Z The podcast Serial, now in its second season, was the offspring of the long-running radio program This American Life, a veritable audio staple of upper-middle-class white American households. True-crime stories: a centuries-old craze from Ben Franklin to Making a Murderer 2016-01-07T05:00:00Z The farmland that once surrounded the school is now an upper-middle-class subdivision. How Hillary Clinton Went Undercover to Examine Race in Education 2015-12-27T05:00:00Z Whiskey Tango Foxtrot's trailer is funny, and it's exciting to see Fey removed from her usual urban, upper-middle-class comedic stomping grounds. Watch the trailer for Tina Fey's war movie Whiskey Tango Foxtrot 2015-12-17T05:00:00Z He said the group is “increasing in popularity among educated, urban, upper-middle-class and upper-class women.” Tashfeen Malik Studied at Conservative Religious School in Pakistan 2015-12-07T05:00:00Z Tahir, a complicated character fleeing war and terrorism in Nigeria, eventually is reduced to the "magical Negro" stereotype, one who only serves to help Hannah return to the comforts of her upper-middle-class life. 'Shelter' views horrors of homelessness from a place of privilege 2015-11-11T05:00:00Z Writing in the New York Times a few years ago, Keyssar noted that “No state has ever attempted to disenfranchise upper-middle-class or wealthy white male citizens.” Recent editorials from Texas newspapers 2015-11-03T05:00:00Z While there is a tiny germ of truth to this supposed financial aid penalty, the consequences of upper-middle-class people not saving much are now splayed before us in the presidential campaign financial disclosures. Why It Makes Good Sense to Save for College Now 2015-10-23T04:00:00Z Taking their place are young, upper-middle-class drinkers who are spending their own money and opting for lower-priced bottles. Sales of Luxury Alcohol Rising Again in China 2015-10-16T04:00:00Z It’s easy for upper-middle-class humanitarians — yes, I guess I’m in this group — to speak from quite comfortable circumstances of their concern and horror over the suffering in the Middle East and Europe. 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