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LANGUAGE AS A sign of class--a la George Bernard Shaw's Eliza Doolittle--is contrary to American traditions. Colonial Americans, notes historian Daniel Boorstin, prided themselves on the almost universal use of proper grammar. There were no discernible differences in patois between rich and poor. Unlike their British cousins who developed the language, Americans did not have to look to the upper crust for guidance on the proper use of the King's English. We have traditionally had to look no farther than our neighbors. Now, if we ask to see our neighbor, his son might reply...
...suburban Houston's affluent Memorial area, Pawnbroker Jean Davis last month installed a drive-in window so that once rich oil barons would not have to embarrass themselves by going through the shop's front door. Davis recently began dispatching a black limousine to bring in clients. At Shaw's Jewelry and Loan on the eastern edge of Houston's tony River Oaks section, pawnbroker loans are running nearly 20% above last year's pace. The new clients are bringing in everything from a $35,000 bronze statue to state-of- the-art stereo systems. One oil company executive came...
...scenes at the end of the opera. Indeed, Acts I and III are so primal, so powerful and so popular that audiences have cheerfully overlooked the tedium of the second act in order to revel in the Ride of the Valkyries and the Magic Fire Music. As George Bernard Shaw observed, "Die Walkure is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon or even a House of Commons debate...
...number of Congressmen, the term drug war is not to be taken lightly. As the House argued over its bill on drug abuse two weeks ago, several lawmakers employed the rhetoric of war in discussing the nation's fight against narcotics. Republican E. Clay Shaw of Florida called drugs "the biggest threat that we have ever had to our national security." South Carolina Republican Thomas Hartnett declared them "a threat worse than any nuclear warfare or any chemical warfare waged on any battlefield...
...Maryann Plunkett as the plucky working-class girl who means more to him than ermine and marbled halls. The earl-to-be spurns his title for love, the girl rejects his proposals so as not to deprive him, and love finally conquers all -- with the slyly introduced help of Shaw's Henry Higgins, the alchemist of social class who makes a convincing duchess of a flower girl in Pygmalion...