Word: laddered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Eccentric Human Nature. He was the son of a stuffy, snobbish Royal Academician named William Collins, whose only aim in life was to climb to the top of the ladder, kicking off old friends at every rung. Wilkie rebelled violently against his father's way of life-particularly because the elder Collins always deemed his social climbing to be a form of Christian uplift. Consequently, Wilkie developed a lifelong aversion to religion, preferred low society to high, and liked to dress for dinner in camel's-hair coats and pink shirts. He was shortsighted and short of stature...
When McGeorge Bundy became Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences in August 1953, he passed several hundred men on the Academic ladder, many of whom were shocked at the sudden good fortune of this 34 year-old product of Yale. But their amazement soon gave way to satisfaction, as Bundy proved equal to the high expectations...
Huge and amiable, the former autocrat puffed up the gold-and-silver ladder to his jewel-encrusted throne, and just as the royal backside touched the gold-brocaded pillow waiting to receive it, thousands upon thousands of lights blazed up all over the city. Elephants with gilded toenails lumbered past the prince. Indian regimentals struggled bravely to keep their Scottish bagpipes skirling, while acrobats wheeled and tumbled. One by one Mysore's distinguished citizens approached the throne holding an offering of gold, and the maharaja, his diamond earrings ajangle, tapped the proffered coin to show that he accepted...
...Snow (himself a sometime physicist and civil servant) in the same way that the very rich fascinated Scott Fitzgerald, and he is at his best in scenes in which two or three top civil servants measure out other men's job futures in judicious mumbles. On this power ladder, Eliot represents the "new men," the non-U's in Nancy Mit-fordese, the men with the wrong school ties around their necks and humble aspidistras in the windows of their pasts. In that sense, Author Snow is the true chronicler of a new class-one of the Gals...
...Internal Security Subcommittee when it was headed by Pat McCarran and now a candidate for the Democratic nomination for U.S. Senator in Nevada. Charged Democrat Sour-wine: "The Justice Department has evidence showing Javits to have been the protege of important Communists, who helped push him up the political ladder." The least of Sourwine's implications: if Republican Javits were nominated he could be thoroughly smeared...