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...Labour - has lost traction. That was the cheering message Tories could take from their May by-election victory in Crewe and Nantwich, a constituency in northwest England. Edward Timpson, heir to a shoe-repair chain, won easily there, despite a negative campaign that burlesqued him as a "Tory toff." Likewise, concludes Iain Dale, a Conservative blogger and the publisher of Total Politics magazine, Cameron's background is no longer an electoral liability: "A lot of people like the fact that Cameron is quite posh. They think he's the right sort of person to govern...
...TIME: You're certainly facing a prejudice in the press here - one columnist from the [pro-Labour tabloid Daily] Mirror often refers to you as "The Toff" [a British pejorative term for the elite social class...
...country. As a preliminary exercise, he has me read Christina Rossetti's poem Remember. His verdict? "Two vowels betray your background." My clenched and elongated [an error occurred while processing this directive]"oh" and "oo" sounds, he says, are the tip-off that I'm a toff. So why don't I want to sound privileged? For starters, I'm not. I'm just plain middle class, but I talk as if my family live in a stately home and don't have to work. My ancestors were mainly teachers, vicars, profs and bishops - careers which might require...
...Most impressively, "The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll." That song, which Dylan wrote within a few weeks of the event it describes, tells of the killing of a Baltimore maid by a rich, politically connected society toff named William Zantzinger. Don't cry yet, Dylan warns in each of the first three choruses, as he relates the awful particulars of the case: "Now ain't the time for your tears." At the end, he spits out the judge's obscenely lenient decision: "And handed out strongly for penalty and repentance, / William Zanzinger with a six months' sentence." Dylan's message...
...interest in acting set him apart. Dorin jokes that “since I proved a total failure at skating and calf-roping, I took up drama.”So rather than quit theatre altogether, Dorin became involved in its production side. Benjamin J. Toff ’05, who was a Crimson Editorial Chair, was directing Pinter’s ‘Betrayal,” and asked me to be his stage manager,” Dorin says. “Since then I’ve tried almost every staff position, except light design...