Word: classiers
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...idea for the publication came from the Yale Undergraduate Forum, which was founded last year, Rosen said, "It will be similar, but we plan on giving it a lot classier appearance. We want to make ourselves Harvard's newest and most elegant journal...
...books like Russell Lynes' The Tastemakers and Vance Packard's The Status Seekers were read by apprehensive Americans eager to appear just a little classier than they were. Their expectations implied that class was a matter not of birth and inheritance but of accomplishment and style. As a system, class belonged to a Europe of social barriers and humiliations that no American would stand...
...THESE DETAILS on his latest luxuries just may make Buckley a classier Stephen King in the product name-dropping department. But as with Stephen King, it raises the most serious objections to his work: isn't this man capable of something more than this? Certainly Buckley can be charming, analytical, brilliant; certainly he can consider something more than limo conversions or the history of his family estate. After a while, you question the civic sobriety of a Bill Buckley discussing the housing problems of New York bag ladies after whining on about his family estate going condo...
...small Minneapolis TV newsroom was dark with disuse when the old gang-Mary Richards and Lou Grant, Murray Slaughter and Sue Ann Nivens, Ted and Georgette Baxter-came back one last time for reminiscence and rue. As clusters of the faithful were doing in living rooms and the classier pubs across the country, the WJM team had assembled to lament the untimely passing of some fine old friends: Louie De Palma, Doctor Johnny Fever, Detective Harris, Mork from Ork. With a few swipes of TV executives' pens, four of the best comedy series of the late 1970s-Taxi, WKRP...
...pros by winning 34 fights, earning some $500,000 and taking the championship from James J. Braddock -all in three years. He did not waste words, either: "As soon as I catch 'em, I put 'em to sleep." When critics doubted that he could take the lighter, classier Billy Conn in 1941, Louis observed, "He can run, but he can't hide...