Word: crusts
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...South is changing, but the "upper crust" has resisted so far. There is more flexibility in its thinking and actions, but down deep little real change. I recall the constant admonition, "Remember who you are"-and that meant a Southern lady or gentleman...
Southern fried chicken can be prepared in endless ways; at its best it has a fine and crispy crust and is cooked so that inside it is moist to the bone. For chicken, ham, breads, jams or jellies there is no strict rule or regulation...
...long-time advocate of granting credit for musical performance combined with analysis, Kirchner has always focused his efforts on the upper crust of Harvard musicians. "Unless you have a high-powered, hot center, the other stuff turns to garbage, like finger-painting," he says. But while Music 180, the advanced performance course Kirchner pioneered, remains relatively elite--last year it accepted only 29 of 100 applicants--the course seems downright plebeian alongside the Chamber Players...
Meanwhile, Canfield, growing increasingly tired of his boring, upper crust wife (who Agnew writes comes from "North Philadelphia," which happens to be that city's largest black ghetto), falls for Meredith Lord, Secretary of Health, Education and Welfare. Lord, who is beautiful as well as political ("The cloth clung to and outlined her shapely legs with every sinuous stride"), is interested in Canfield not only for his aristocratic good looks but because he can help her obtain funding for her pet program, a medical-aid bill known as THC (Total Health Care...
...from a historical chronicle of a distinguished New England family to a pointed deposition--sketched on yellow legal paper--on the Puritan ethic. Through all his talk of covenants, missions and Puritan ideals runs an annoying smugness. Novelists John Marquand and John O'Hara also assayed the WASP upper crust in their writings, but rarely presumed to give their characters a moral or aesthetic superiority over the Great Unwashed. Auchincloss, on the other hand, hints that his Winthrops are not only different from you and me, they are better. By birth and from birth they remain arbiters of elegance...