Word: upper-class
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...suffered the rude awakening traditional to upper-class English boys. Sent off to Lancing, a public school near Brighton, he found himself scrapping for perks with a pack of young snobs in full cry. He hated it, but in self-defense he repressed his homesickness and began to play the devil with his wit. At Oxford, where wit and atheism made him fashionable, he drank like a drain, hobbed with the nobs, japed and scraped his way through 2½ years of invaluable idleness. He wrote little but he peered at the peerage, at the descendants of the knights...
...murder the sister. The hero escapes to go home to pamphleteer in the cause of tolerance, and to get himself happily married. "The answer to everything," he concludes, is contained "within the magic of reciprocal love." Author Benedictus' discursive, Edwardian elegance of style is amusingly suited to satirizing upper-class pretentiousness, but his Negro characters are simply stereotypes and his twittering wittiness collapses at last into sentimentality...
...Americans, being on the giving end of modernization, got a great deal more fun out of Sino-American relations. In the privileged status thrust upon them by the treaty system, most Americans enjoyed their contact with China, the chance to be an upper-class foreigner riding in a rickshaw while still remaining an egalitarian grassroots democrat in one's own concience. For an average American to go abroad and find himself a rich man by comparison with the local people is also quite enjoyable. The Chinese were very polite, and countless Americans made warm friends among them. The American people...
...James Callaghan spelled out the political package that he and Harold Wilson had designed to please the public. First, he promised that there would be no major tax increases for the average wage earner. On the Tory benches the jeering grew louder. Next, Callaghan announced a tax on upper-class forms of gambling (horses, casinos), which, he explained brightly, would be used to reduce the cost of mortgages for low-income home owners...
...last month Dean Douglas D. Bond announced that the Cleveland progressivists already consider their system outdated. They want to break down the big blocks of time still further-mix them so that students will learn more bedside medicine in their first year and get more basic science in upper-class years...