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...they could cater their master's needs in the hereafter. There may have been a more worldly reason as well: entombed servants could not publish their memoirs. Had the dynasties lasted as long as the pyramids, the world might have been spared the reminiscences of Eisenhower's butler, Jacqueline Kennedy's White House cook and, most recently, the man who changed the light bulbs and walked the dogs for Lyndon Johnson...
...Ruling Class. The cliche "brilliantly uneven" might have been coined for this film. Too long and, finally, stupid, but some of the scenes are superb-the Marxist butler (stolen by Tom Stoppard for Travesties) and a skeletal, cobweb-bedecked House of Lords singing a rousing "Dem Bones Gonna Rise." Peter O'Toole plays a balmy earl who thinks he's Jesus Christ. The opening hanging scene and the parody of La Boheme are worth the price of admission...
Over anti-Jewish prejudice seems to have peaked in the '20s and '30s when large numbers of children of immigrants began to enter college. This pressure led many schools to impose quotas on the admission of Jewish students. President Lowell of Harvard and President Butler of Columbia openly defended Jewish quotas. As late as 1945, Ernest M. Hopkins, President of Dartmouth, justified quotas on the grounds that "Dartmouth is a Christian college founded for the christianization of its students...
Beacon Hill, like its English counterpart, Upstairs, Downstairs, is a study of relationships between social classes. The English version takes place in a land ruled by a centuries-old tradition of aristocracy, and the Bellamys are only a little less convinced that they belong where they are than their butler is. The originators of Beacon Hill understood that knowing one's place and sticking to it was a particularly British obsession, and at least did not try to create what would most likely be only a pale American imitation of the British show. But all the problems most commonly associated...
Although he denies direct intimations that Hurlburt and Butler were moved to positions where they would be out of the way, Hall's explanations weaken these denials: Hall now insists that Hurlburt was promoted, but he told The Crimson last year that the move had resulted after Hurlburt's "batteries had worn down" and he had been asked to take a year off to rest. The description Hall gave them of Hurlburt's new job--"primarily to watch over and settle disagreements that arise between the Med School and the administration"--hardly measures up to the title. In Butler...