Mass college sports cross class lines.
Hatreds and rivalries abound both upstairs and below, and sexual shenanigans cross class boundaries.
Graduate of The College of the Holy Cross, Class of 1959.
That realization, along with outrage at widespread corruption, has helped the current outcry cross class, party and generational lines.
The freedom it celebrates is personal freedom: the freedom to love without social interference, to cross class, culture and ethnicity in search of completeness.
After they had left, Mr. Santiago, 36, acknowledged that smoking was a great equalizer, allowing him to mingle with strangers and briefly cross class boundaries without apology.
Gordon Brown and Mr Cameron do not cross class boundaries as easily as their predecessors (or, indeed, as easily as John Major) but the pattern is set.
Young people remain out front, wielding the online tools they grew up with to mobilize protests, elude surveillance and cross class lines.
But the strength of the novel lies in its dissection of the hurdles to be overcome in relationships that attempt to cross class boundaries, and the detail of the servant class's lack of privacy and autonomy.
Meadow, the Sopranos' smart and spoiled high school senior daughter, is the pivotal figure in that theme, the character poised to cross class lines and escape the Sopranos' tacky, violent world.
