Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Summed up the Gazette's Executive Editor Harry Ashmore: "The moderate position formerly espoused by many Southern political leaders, and by this newspaper as a matter of principle, has been rejected by the mass of voters in this upper Southern state and is now clearly untenable for any man in public life anywhere in the region. A period of struggle and turmoil lies ahead...
Perhaps Manzù's greatest work, the doors (opposite) bear four bas-reliefs representing four saints of charity. They show St. Martin of Tours cutting his cape on an icy night to share it with Jesus, appearing as a beggar (upper left); St. Severinus, who died near Salzburg, helping a woman out of prison during a Hun invasion (upper right); the execution of St. Engelbert Kolland (lower left); and St. Francis offering his cloak (lower right). In the center a sheaf of wheat and a cluster of vines, symbolizing the bread and wine of the Eucharist, serve...
Himself born and bred a member of the Establishment, Novelist Powell writes about British upper-class tribal customs with the air of a man who knows that if an outsider wants an explanation, he is not worth explaining to. He lives in a Regency house near Frome in the county of Somerset, 100 miles from his office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman...
Schulman took on a difficult task here, but managed to avoid most of the pitfalls that would have doomed a lesser writer. This is not a thesis play; nor is it a deep one. And it is not a comedy about sophisticated, upper-crust society--which is much easier to write. The author chose the just-plain-folks, people-in-the-house-next-door, it-could-happen-to-you genre, set within the framework of a specific middle-class cultural milieu--the sort that has tempted many American writers, with varying success, ever since Abie's Irish Rose...
...that polished the skin, and behind her knees . . ." Most important of all, for almost 20 hours a day, seven days a week, he is busy catering to an oddball group of well-heeled vagrants -perverted dress designers, roundheeled models, superannuated opera stars, blue-nosed diplomats, alcoholic newlyweds and assorted upper-class deadbeats...