Word: clubmen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Next week the Crimson travels to New Haven forthe Ivy Championships. With a week to rest andprepare, the clubmen expect a good showing. "I'mhoping for a top three finish. If everyone playsto their ability they should be right up there,"Coach John Thompson said
...thing people forget about P.G. Wodehouses' novels, noted George Orwell, is how long ago they were written. That was in 1945. Today they appear to have been composed somewhere between the Jurassic era and the Iron Age. The plummy clubmen, the young wastrels in spats and waistcoat, the shockable aunts, the frosty butler belong in a diorama at the Museum of Natural History, not onstage. Yet here they are, spouting the ancient lines: "He looks as if he'd been poured into his suit and forgotten to say when." "From the collar upward he stands alone." The japes...
...Wine God and the New, a graybeard Bacchus passes a vine-wreathed staff to a wide-eyed Western stripling. The artist's message: the age-old mysteries and delectations of the grape are flourishing in California soil. It must have evoked a guffaw or two from Victorian clubmen with noses deep in the real stuff from...