Word: upper-class
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...Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. A variety of love affairs are subtly manipulated in this novel of British upper-class manners...
Writers from Sophocles to James Jones have believed in winning readers by giving them plenty of action. But in Henry James's 20 novels and 112 tales of upper-class life, blood is rarely spilled (and if it is, hastily wiped away), sex is at best suggested, voices are seldom even raised. His brother William, the philosopher, pleaded with him: "Why won't you sit down and write a book with no twilight or mustiness in the plot, with great vigor and decisiveness in the action, no fencing in the dialogue, no psychological commentaries, and absolute straightness...
...Unofficial Rose, by Iris Murdoch. A spritely, philosophically provocative excursion into upper-class English affairs of the heart...
...Dandin (which Moliere himself played, and whose name has become a generic term for a nincompoop), George Bolton is sufficiently successful. His un-stage-English accent is appropriate for one who is supposed to be incapable of acquiring even a veneer of upper-class manner and speech. But he does not capture enough of Dandin's vanity. The role is modeled on the stock Pantalone of Italian comedy, and Bolton wears Pantalone's traditional long beard and long black cloak...
...have always been surprised that those colleges with a two-year rather than a three-year concentration have not developed more effective programs of advanced standing. At Harvard this is our most vexing problem. There is a sharp division between our upper-class years and our freshman year, which is by and large a year of general education, a year to explore unknown fields, a year to gain insight into the nature of undergraduate concentration here...