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...initiated by Beefy when they both turn up at Trinity College in Dublin, is with a poor working-class girl named Breda. For that, he and Beefy are both booted from college. An engagement to wealthy Miss Fitzdare ends in a tragic riding accident. And, trapped into an ugly, upper-class London marriage, he is further betrayed by his scheming wife. Always Balthazar is seduced and somehow left abandoned. Always he retreats a little further into the elegant prison of his refined sensibilities...
...laws of bloodlines and training, George Orwell should have been a Blimp. Born Eric Blair, into a military-official family, he went on scholarship to a spartan prep school designed to groom likely lads for their destined place in the Establishment. Like any dutiful upper-class English boy, he journeyed East to govern the lesser breeds as an officer in the Burmese police. The experience was decisive. His sketch Shooting an Elephant is a picture in microcosm of two imperial centuries of interracial injustice and violence. Unlike most people, he could take it but he could not dish...
...blue-collar working class and the lower-middle white-collar class, Riesman explained, feel threatened by the blacks or Puerto Ricans moving into their neighborhoods and puzzled by the upper-class and upper-middle-class "anti-Puritan snobs" who seem "to tolerate if not to sponsor the radicals...
Most of Boston's hippies live in apartments on the Hill or in the South End. The Hill is also the home of upper-class proper Bostonians, but the two groups live together with little friction, Avery said. "It goes in cycles. Sure they get sick of us sometimes [like last summer], but we appease them...
George Dandin, is the decorous tale of a wealthy farmer who is all but cuckolded and constantly humiliated by his upper-class minx of a wife. The only novelty provided in its performance is an acting style that is resolutely anti-psychological. Each role is lustrously burnished; none is probed. No transistorized translation is offered with these plays, and to those who lack French, the language may sound like an LP record played at 78 r.p.m...