Word: poshli
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...regular sessions at the Park Avenue apartment of "the maestro," practicing on a magnificent Bechstein piano. When the maestro dies, Claude inherits the instrument, which is crammed into Weisfeld's shop for Claude's exclusive use. Luminous pianists line up to give the lad free instructions. Fellowships to a posh East Side prep school and then to a select liberal arts college effortlessly materialize. Claude's heart is dented by the rich Catherine, but he goes on to marry her cousin Lady, who confides in passing that she has a trust fund worth $5 million...
Politeness makes sense to the politicos. Neither this city nor its suburbs have any native industry--you won't find many meat-packing plants in Georgetown or in posh Falls Church, Va., Potomac, Md.--and the bird-to-victim ration is high...
...neighborhood in which Joseph Gallardo's house burnt down isn't posh; despite abutting Seattle's Volvo-saturated suburbs, Snohomish County runs more to pickup trucks. But it is still a community, with lots of children and loving, anxious parents -- which is presumably why someone lit the match...
...civil (very civil) war between one side of a man's soul and the other -- are in no way affected by the coming down of the Berlin Wall. Besides, in the very first paragraph of the new book, we see the Gulf War being followed in a posh Zurich hotel -- the very definition of a safe "neutral" zone -- and are reminded that espionage nature abhors a vacuum: if the cold war is over, a hot one must be cooked up in its place...
...Harvard department of athletics said the Special Olympics had told them that about 8,000 spectators attended the events, which at Harvard included track and field, softball, volleyball, power lifting, tennis, roller skating and aquatics. There was one event completely unaffected by the weather--volleyball, which took place in posh Shad Hall, the Business School athletic complex usually restricted to Business School affiliates and some Allston residents...