Word: upper-class
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...exploit their preppie cachet. They assembled about 25 well-scrubbed young men and women to do odd jobs in the well-heeled area and called their new enterprise Preps for Rent. The basic company uniform: Lacoste shirts, Top Siders and khaki pants or shorts. For $7 an hour, this upper-class job corps mows lawns, serves drinks and paints houses...
...endorse Alvin Thompson, a Black candidate for city council. The CCA are well-intentioned, hard-working people, and, the truth be told, think highly of themselves. So there was some displeasure when an elderly Black man stood up to say his piece--an attack on the group and its upper-class constituency for prejudice and racism. It was a bitter speech, full of recriminations for past wrongs, and it made a lot of people, including many who opposed the endorsement on fairly pure political grounds, squirm...
Working from the top, Brooks' candidates for pioneers of the new style are Bernie Cornfeld, whose flamboyant style ridiculed the low profile of international business; Governor Jerry Brown, the Jesuit-Zen candidate who flouted the rules of politics; and George Plimpton, the upper-class New Yorker whose characterizations as a dilettante in professional sports disguised a professional writer. But what of Gloria Vanderbilt, who declassed herself to become the Duchess of Denim, and of the homosexual parodists in entertainment and fashion...
...scene is an 8,000-acre estate in Oxfordshire. Some very upper-class English have assembled to enjoy the hospitality of their host, Sir Randolph Nettleby, and three days of partying and shooting in the crisp fall weather. The month is October and the year is 1913. A novel set in this place and time automatically creates a reserve of ready-made poignancy: the insular, comfortable people of the period had no idea what the guns of August 1914 would bring. But Author Isabel Colegate does not exploit this sentiment. The coming Great War is, naturally, a fact of which...
...other hand, when it sees an advantage in doing so, Air Florida will happily offer quite extravagant extras to promote itself on competitive routes. On the line's Miami-to-London run, gourmet foods and vintage wines become part of what the carrier terms its upper-class service. Upon arriving at Gatwick Airport, 25 miles outside London, the plane's disembarking upper-class passengers are whisked free of charge into town in a convoy of chauffeured Rolls-Royces provided by the airline...