Word: manors
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...people" who dominate his place after 3 a.m. when the bar crowd leaves and it becomes a social club where everybody knows each other, I was the "celebrity grill cook." That was pretty good in my mind because at least I was sort of real. But the two Pine Manor students fresh from the Picadilly Philly instantly recognized me as the Harvard student...
Fashion Designer Ralph Lauren grew up a long way from all the things he really admired: hand-tailored clothes, manor houses, sports cars, fine horses and manicured lawns. But call it a yearning process: as an outsider to that world, Bronx-born Lauren dreamed up his own brand of gentility and style. Now he has managed to create an image and a company that have nearly cornered the market for supplying today's would-be Gatsbys. Shunning hipness and flamboyance, Lauren cultivates the up-and-coming customer's appreciation for things and dreams that last...
...pill. No women spent thenight in our dorms, openly that is, and alas, oneof our class' great regrets is that we just missedthe sexual revolution. Not completely, thankgoodness, though the Cliffies were so bright manyfound them intimidating and headed happily for themore yielding fields of Pine Manor and Simmons...
...selfish man and a consummate bottom-liner who subjected all his passions to cost analysis. In order of importance, his preoccupations were the oil business, sex, and bargain hunting for art. He even looked the part: a Scrooge-like figure with a lecherous gaze living in an underheated English manor house that contained a public pay phone in the hall...
...increased the richness of the mix. Commencement Day at Harvard (the very archetype of an occasion now celebrated nationwide), is always a trifle lonely for this non-alumnus. Though a member of the Faculty, I sense my exclusion from valued aspects of those Festival Rites. Not being to that manor born, I will be forever outside a club I admire and respect. My status is an accident of circumstance and, during a particular day in June, I occasionally regret the circumstance. But I neither resent, nor would I tamper with, the privileges attendant on being a member of the Class...