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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Thus, when I was at Cambridge (1920-24), undergraduates like myself from modest homes and borough secondary schools tended to emulate the dress and manner of speech of the Etonians, Harrovians and Wykhamists, etc., etc., among whom they found themselves...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: The Eclipse of the Gentleman | 12/3/1979 | See Source »

...SATISFACTION of reading a Henry James novel is seeing through eyes that penetrate the surface of Victorian manner and dress, and resolve scenes of human life into clearer images of human nature. The appeal is surely intellectual rather than emotional--the beauty of a James' novel is not so much in the characters' intrigues, but in the author's view of them...

Author: By Sarah G. Boxer, | Title: The Missing James | 11/27/1979 | See Source »

...dress was one normally conforming to a college-area individual, be it a student or a professor," Officer Robert M. Ryan, an MDC policeman who dragged the body out of the river, said...

Author: By Alexandra D. Korry, | Title: MDC Police Seeking Identity Of Body Pulled From River | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...York, a full-dress Clyfford Still retrospective...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Tempest in the Paint Pot | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

...statewide job openings. Richmond has a sidewalk kiosk where browsers can check out bestsellers and paperbacks. "I used to be a real elitist," says Librarian Howard Smith. "But we're trying to get people to read at no matter what level." The Dallas public library lends games and dress patterns in low-income neighborhoods. Some libraries even lend gerbils and hamsters, as well as hedge trimmers and posthole diggers-a development that often upsets traditionalists. Sniffs Mrs. Chebie Bateman, library director for Columbus, Miss.: "I believe in furnishing the books and letting the hardware store furnish the tools...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Education: Trouble in the Stacks | 11/26/1979 | See Source »

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