Word: high-class
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...High-class corner-cutting in the issue of complimentary tickets, plus a casual attitude toward campus jobs and off-campus activities for athletes cost the University of California...
...start of a love affair as well as a bank account. However, the grimly spontaneous kissing sometimes makes way for some fairly fresh kidding (when the lovers hold hands, a thousand hens lay all at once, and oil explodes from a dry well) and for a few high-class variety numbers. Lena Home and Cara Williams provide the best of these, though Frankie Laine's performance is not without its morbid fascination, and Hermes Pan's ballet about Frankie and Johnny has a sort of hatpin wickedness-even though Ballerina Charisse succeeds in blunting the point...
This year's ballyhoo is a far cry from the first Smoker held in the Union by the class of 1914. Speakers, light refreshment, and few "reels of high-class movies" filled the usual agenda, and were followed by the "lusty singing of Harvard songs that often shook the Union's mooseheads...
...many other companies there is only trouble in large-scale local recruiting. Outside Japan and the Philippines, there is a great shortage of employees trained for high-class technical or office work. The kind of experts foreign companies need are simply not available. Furthermore, a foreign company that sells service tends to lose its identity if it hires almost all natives. Manhattan's First National City Bank branch in Hong Kong started to hire native workers whenever possible but slowed down when it found that it was losing its identity as an American bank selling American service...
...viewers still love I Love Lucy. How long the love affair will continue depends on how much comic inventiveness Desi and Lucy can put into their formula of a young couple getting in and out of slapstick situations with a well-shaken mixture of low-class cunning and high-class ineptitude. Last week the re-run of an old Lucy was neither comic nor inventive. Lucy's idea of fun was to return repeatedly to a nightclub, got up in a series of outlandish disguises, and leave indignantly each time on being told that Desi no longer entertained there...