Word: upper-class
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...only four years her junior, Berthe made her mark in a man's world, the just-born world of French impressionism. "Do you realize what this means?" one of her early painting teachers asked her mother when he realized how big a talent Berthe had. "In the upper-class milieu to which you belong, this will be revolutionary. I might almost say, catastrophic." But Mamma Morisot was not afraid f having her daughter turn artist, and her husband, a well-to-do civil servant, was broad-minded enough about the girl to introduce her to Painter Camille Corot...
...just Turkey but the entire Middle East. Though this year's graduates are all Turkish, about 12% of the school's 515 students come from other countries in the area, and the figure will rise to as much as 20%. Most of the students are still from upper-class backgrounds; since English is the modern world's technical lingua franca, all studies are conducted in English, and only the best-educated students are equipped to understand the texts. But in time, President Burdell expects his enrollment to include ''sons and daughters of peasants of Anatolia...
...Highland Park High School, which serves two upper-class Dallas suburbs, University Park and Highland Park, is one of the toughest high schools academically in the Southwest. From 1957 to 1959, only 40 of its 1,022 graduates did not attend college. In 1960, the national ratio of graduating seniors to National Merit scholars was 1,666 to 1; at Highland Park, the ratio proved...
...spoke with the "husky, strangled voice of an upper-class Englishman, overlaid with a slight French accent," but he seldom had anything intellectually provocative to say. He read little but listened well, and got most of his ideas from what people said; yet he could speak authoritatively on horses and modern painting ("They are my only loves"), and sometimes surprised acquaintances with a display of caustic humor...
...maintaining a sharp crease in his pants and a permanent wave in his upper lip, handsome Actor Sanders has caused spasms of resentment and loathing among the viewers of some 70 movies (in his most notable villain's role, he won an Oscar as the caddish critic in All About Eve). The antipathy he evokes with his frigorific stare is all the more violent because he is an upper-class rotter, and the only actor since Erich von Stroheim and Charles Coburn who can wear a monocle without looking as if he is going to drop...