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...PREPPY HANDBOOK, published in 1980, lists more than two dozen phrases meaning "to vomit." This is no mistake. Perhaps more than any other group in recent decades, the youth of the 1980s revel in bad taste. For the generation that grew up with Saturday Night Live and Animal House, nothing is funnier than a well told puke joke...
...English, who have flirted with Beatles music and the leveling principle, have returned to their ancient heritage of snobbism. They worship their ancestors and buy The Official Shane Ranger Handbook and dream of country houses and old money. They have a look, both wistful and satirical, at the Duke of Bedford's Book of Snobs, with its indispensable advice: "A tiara is never worn in a hotel, only at parties arranged in private houses or when royal ladies are present." They think longingly of the right public school, the right regiment, the right club (Whites, if possible, or Boodles...
...addition to her memoirs, Cronkhite authored the Handbook for Harvard Teachers" (1950) and "Graduate Education for Women" The Radcliffe Ph.D...
Verba said the committee agreed with the students contention that Rotterdam probably should have told the students of their low grades before the final exam, which he said is suggested as a guideline in the Handbook for Instructors...
...what a strange obsession it is. It is not sex the way any hygiene class or best selling handbook describes it that takes place in the Houses and halls of these writers' imaginations. Something altogether different is going on between these sheets, and it deserves a careful examination...