Word: leaguer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Luxuriantly bearded Playboy Nubar Gulbenkian, 64, counts his fortune in the millions, not the billions, rates as a bush leaguer next to his father, the late oil-rich Calouste ("Mr. Five Percent...
...member of the Football Hall of Fame. He graduated from the University of Michigan in 1921 after election to Phi Beta Kappa and recognition on the All-America football team. He is regarded locally as an arch-conservative who abides by the letter of NCAA law--"an Ivy Leaguer at heart...
...does not have the special vocabulary and point of in working girls or groups elsewhere in the . She has cultivated speech, and even tones of are gentle editions of the Leaguer's. Ofter even her is carefully unfeminine; everything possible to seductice or suggestive." true, and it is one of the of Ivy League life. it is also one of the Birmingham is on the about in the entire reasonably literate could have put together of course residential statements of library sizes, and lists of alumni simply by reading office press releases, and never leaving his armchair. to the dust...
Birmingham first confronts the question, What makes the Ivy Ivy League different? In his confused ramblings, he touches upon Ivy League clothes, high costs, bad football, location, and big libraries. Perhaps he settles longest on the Ivy Leaguer's social pre-eminence, especially his ability to marry high. Birmingham admits that these are perhaps only surface differences, and tries to explain it all with...
This reminds one of the blind adoration the Midwestern girls in that classic of our time, Where the Boys Are felt for for Ivy boys. Typically, one remarked, "A date with a Leaguer! Isn't that the end?" American literature fans will remember that one of these admiring belles was ultimately taken to bed, round-robin style, by three Yalies, until late in the idyllic Ft. Lauderdale vacation, when the Yalies simply abandoned the round-robin method. Which all proves that Ivy League boys aren't really so different after...