Word: parvenu
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...TIME, March 8, 1968), was built on the somehow delightful confrontation between an anti-Semitic old man and a Jewish nine-year-old. In Marry Me, Marry Me, Berri finds legitimate laughter in the plight of a pregnant bride-to-be, her philandering fiance, and parvenu in-laws who behave like outlaws...
...young librarian named Neil Klugman (Richard Benjamin) meets vacationing Cliffie Brenda Patimkin (Ali MacGraw). Neil is a wry, unfocused dropout, from both college and society. Sleek and chic, Brenda has had not only her nose fixed but her psyche as well. Her mother (Nan Martin) is a fashionably haggard parvenu who objects to Neil's background, his manners and, most important, his drab occupation. Brenda's father (Jack Klugman) commits a more serious sin-he trusts his daughter and lets her know...
...Senate expected a spoiled parvenu, it found instead a diligent, diffident, intelligent freshman who avoided publicity as well as a Kennedy could, and concentrated on the business of his committees and his state. While an undergraduate at Harvard, Ted had once been suspended for having another student take a Spanish exam for him. As a Senator, he has never been caught with homework undone. He made courtesy calls on his elders, including those with whom he completely disagreed. When Mississippi's James Eastland, chairman of the Judiciary Committee of which Kennedy was a member, entertained him in an early...
...bounds, Were public-spirited, would patronize, Most lavishly, the decent charities; Noblesse oblige. Somewhere along the line The name was changed. What's wrong with that? That's fine, They earned the privilege. Give them all their due, But-weren't they still the least bit parvenu, The least bit not quite Mayflower, F.F.V., A trace this side of true gentility, A soupfon, a sous-soupçon, just below The absolute apogee of comme il faut? They did improve the breed, they kept alive The sport of kings, so that, in 1905, The naming of this...
...spotlights swept the sky when it happened. No vinyl microskirted star lets babbled by; no gawkers gathered under a spangled marquee. Yet the event was as important as any premiere in Hollywood history. On the day in 1966 when Jack Warner sold his studio to the parvenu Seven Arts Productions, a new movie epoch began...