Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Jackson (Thorn Mt.)--Good to excellent upper, fair to good lower...
Franconia (Cannon)--Fair to good upper, good lower, slope excellent...
...begin with, Playwright Chayefsky's forte is not the idyls of the Kingsleys but the annals of doggedly ordinary folk. Given a handful of lower-middle or too-recently-upper-middle class people, and he will envelop them in a fine steam bath of banalities, in strong but clotted family feelings. Given a really sharp situation, such as Jerry's family met in a conclave over his possible marriage, and Chayefsky can orchestrate it-and Joshua Logan conduct it-with precise, phonographic humor. But the strong point of the playwright becomes the weak point of the play...
...dismissed as just another clever young man's attempt to settle scores with his old school. But Powell, at 50, still writes of young men like a young man-one who has mercifully lived down his youth. Narrator Jenkins has a remarkably good ear, and records middle-and upper-class conversation with comic precision. And he is presented as a descendant of that Captain Jenkins about whose ear a war was fought in the 18th century.* By this ancestry, Author Powell indicates that great events are to be set in motion by his apparently offhand trivia...
...other hand, the H.D.C. plan might backfire. Especially prodigious freshmen might be disinclined to submit to its rather arbitrary program. Yet, according to the Dean's ground rules, they could not legally participate in House productions. Smoldering discontent among the freshmen would be matched by the rebellious attitude of upper-classmen who would rather take parts in House productions than bow to the demands of the H.D.C. Inevitably, there would be one of two results: either the H.D.C. would dissolve completely or the rules would be dropped...