Word: upper-class
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...with the drawings that accompanied their publication (Bentley's illustrators included O.K. Chesterton and his own son Nicolas). This collection helps define the form. Unlike the limerick, its distant relative, the clerihew does not accommodate bawdiness or strong feelings of any other kind. Liberal in spirit, with some upper-class conservative leanings, Bentley roundly detested the Nazis. Yet his clerihew on the subject mocks rather than jeers...
...elite, apparently, is to emulate the fellow who made it into the Exclusive Social Club and adopt the so-called "Molloy's Class Mask." The key to becoming so facially favored apparently, is to spend hours before a mirror aping the book's clearly-labeled diagrams, which show an upper-class executive type holding his head up, and an average slouch, well, slouching. This modern Pygmalion proceeds to offer up a self-graded speech test that seems to miss some of the subtleties of poor speech--one is downgraded for pronouncing "boil" "berle" and "left" "weft...
...rampaging Red Guards. She married the rebel leader at her high school to gain political protection in an alliance known as a "Red Umbrella" marriage. When the revolution was over, she applied for a divorce and got one. Some, like Yu Luojin, marry peasants to neutralize their upper-class origins and look better in the eyes of the state. In other cases, partners now want to end mercenary marriages, contracted simply to get a good flat and the furniture coupons that go to married couples. Or they may simply want to get a job and get back to the city...
Arguing against conscription is more difficult than illustrating the pointlessness of registration. The draft would accomplish several worthy goals. By forcing educated, white males from middle-and upper-class backgrounds into uniform, the government could begin to correct the over-representation of minorities and the poor now serving in the military. Badly depleted reserve divisions could be replenished, improving the country's capacity to respond to a genuine foreign threat. And in theory, it could be done equitably, unlike previous drafts. Various legislations have proposed universal service programs: no exemptions, short terms of active duty, and alternative non-military options...
...felt for months or even years, realtors and landlords stand to make some very big money from a single city council rollcall. A lot more tenants stand to lose their homes. And the city stands to change dramatically--from an exciting, traditional community into a dull upper-class professional ghetto...