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...unpublished phrase which might be our text, '. . . if you're not one up (Blitzleiscti) you're . . . one down (Rotzleisch).' " In his constant pursuit of One-Upness, the sound Lifeman first of all makes his opponent (i.e., everybody) feel like an idiot child, a boor or a cad (heel, if opponent is an American). To a visitor, the Lifeman remarks: " 'You want a wash, I expect,' in a way which suggested that he had spotted two dirty finger-nails." A rival talker is completely thrown off his stride by the Lifeman's "I knew...
Cynical Aphorist. As Nancy Mitford remarks in her lively introduction, the same cannot be said of Madame de Lafayette, who, after marrying a provincial boor and bearing him several children, spent the remainder of her life on the edges of Louis XIV's court engaged in an endless quest for preferment and place...
...Anniversary" and "The Boor," two one-act plays by Chekhov, will be presented by the Dramatic Club Reading Theatre at 2 p.m. today at Fogg Museum...
Tryouts for the Dramatic Club readings of "The Anniversary" and "The Boor" will be held in PBH at 7 p.m. tonight in the Noble Room and at 2 p.m. tomorrow in the Chapel Room...
...want to take pictures come anyhow. Once a CRIMSON candidate you won't be bothered by anyone. The Advocate will consider you illiterate, the Lampoon will consider you a boor, and the Clubs won't even consider...