Word: upper-class
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...aspect of this archaeological reconstruction is not that Wodehouse lives; he is far more robust between cloth covers than in the theater, where he is bereft of narrative and description. The evening demonstrates only one astonishment. Edward Duke, the entire cast of Jeeves Takes Charge, is a festival of upper-class twits, from the harrumphing members of The Drones, young Bertie Wooster's club, to the nattering dames, to the one true aristocrat of Wodehouse's canon: the immortal, if tiresome Jeeves...
When he visits Scaduto at home, Savage is fascinated by the revolting behavior of the Scaduto's sons, who attend a "really fine" English prep school and have picked up from their snobbish schoolmates' upper-class English accents, frantic status competition and bigoted attitudes. Savage listens to the conversation of the children...
...Senior Donations Committee also recruited new fundraising agents yesterday, bringing the total to 107, M. Todd Collins '83, a committee member, said at a press conference last night. He added that the committee now has at least one junior in every upper-class house...
...when his own son died, and Freeman was later given a title which allowed him to attend the chiefly assemblies which were hidden from Mead. Unfortunately, because of this unique exposure, Freeman tends, as one critic has already pointed out, to assume that what he saw of upper-class Samoan life held true for all of Samoan society. This comes through, for instance, in his analysis of the importance of virginity in Samoan culture. Mead had noted that some of the girls from families of high status were ceremonial virgins or laupou. These girls, Mead said, would be deflowered publically...
...some difficulty. Detail is her forte; generalizations do not always survive mass cliches. The author gives excellent treatment to Tarnower's complex anti-Semitism. Alexander grounds her conclusions in a wealth of quotations. But attributing Harris's tragic end to the emotional frustration of "ladies of a particular northern upper-class WASP variety" becomes a kind of shorthand which hinders us from understanding Jean Harris's personality...