Unlike most upper-class residents, John Pintard, the respected civic leader who was the historical society's founder, remained in the stricken city.
Bosie was the only one to stick with Wilde at the time of his trial, when most upper-class gays were fleeing the country to avoid the scandal.
Perhaps, as with many career women, some parental neglect was inevitable; as with most upper-class people of her generation, so was a certain reserve.
Meanwhile, Miriam concludes, "Now I've spent years observing how grand people live, I've learned that the ultimate grand person's food, found on all the most upper-class tables, is not caviar, truffles, virgin olive oil or fancy cheese.
It drew everyone to him – the working class and the middle class loved him, but even the most upper-class people were immediately in the palm of his hand.
"Most upper-class Brahmins participated in the freedom struggle, and so they became part of the Congress Party," he told me.
Most upper middle class Americans are socially liberal — indeed, one of the groups that the governor of New York state, Andrew Cuomo, enlisted in his drive to legalize same-sex marriage last year was Wall Street heavy hitters, some of them Republican.
The ugly fact is that because most upper-middle class people in this country don't end up serving in the military anymore, it is almost completely off their radar.
Tahrir represented a brief convergence: most organizers were upper class, and millions of the poor had followed their lead.
Having gone through at least one year of school, most high school upper class members should have a general idea of what they'll need on a day-to-day basis.
If you are like most upper-middle-class people, you don't know.
