Word: class
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...audiences, an important first night is a combination of theatrical gamble and social sure thing. Cafe Society, theatre people, Bohemians, middle-class Johnny-on-the-spots-the toughest theatre crowd in the world to please-are the backbone of every Broadway first-night audience. An hour before curtain time, a mob of babbling celebrity-chasers and autograph hounds, aged ten to 70, starts lining up outside the theatre entrance. As. taxis and limousines roll up, the audience's audience gurgles and gasps ("It's Elsa Maxwell!", "It's Freddie March!", "There's Dorothy Parker!"), then surges...
...final, slowly and delicately built paintings are always girls found in the neighborhood, never professionals. The thing she feels about them and tries to communicate in her painting, she says, is their "mobility in life." the very fact that they do not belong irrevocably to a certain class, that anything may happen to them...
Some of his conclusions: the whole class of criminals in general is marked off from the civilian population by organic inferiority. "Old American" criminals (native-born whites of native parentage) tend to be smaller and lighter, to have shorter and broader faces, narrower jaws, more sloping shoulders, longer and thinner necks. To the trained anthropologist the dimensions and contours of their heads and faces are sometimes suggestive of retarded development, sometimes of the retention of primitive features, and often of conservatism which may be described as evolutionary rigidity or a failure to conform to modern trends of physical change." Whether...
...Author. Like Henry James and Proust, whose craftsmanship and insight she more simply recalls, tall, shy, angular, 39-year-old Elizabeth Bowen belongs to the upper middle class which she skilfully anatomizes. The fashionable residence of her novel is modeled on her own Regent's Park house, a five-story Georgian mansion, where she lives with her husband, Alan Cameron, former Oxford don, now children's educational director for BBC. In this ritzy, rumbling house (the Underground passes directly underneath) The Death of the Heart three years ago got off to a slow start because Author Bowen spent...
...London Times's agony column, British sportsmen were agonized to read this advertisement: "?70 BURSARY* OFFERED at first-class Prep. School to BOY promising at games...