Word: upper
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...book moves as plotlessly as a dream. Tom is an upper Bohemian who lives on "infusions" from a trust fund and beds down off-campus with a girl named Lila, who frets about being half-Jewish but whose physique is as firm as her psyche is wobbly. Lila is one of the zombi women who people modern fiction; she exists to do Tom's will. Tom himself plays zombi to Chris Hunt, a kind of ex-G.I. Dorian Gray who "tinkers with machines and people" and usually cracks up both...
...believe that--I don't believe that anything beyond small things in the agricultural field or upper--upstream, things where workmen can go to work very quickly, and acceleration of program already started--for example, your Post Office and all that sort of thing...
...Street club that he frequents, "no newspaper comes to the reading room before it has been ironed." He-Man Bond's bath water is scented with Floris Lime bath essence, while his babes splash self-indulgently amid Guerlain bath cubes. To Critic Bergonzi, these cushy "fantasies of upper class life can only be a desire to compensate for the rigors of existence in a welfare state: they have an air of vulgarity and display...
...beer can rattles down the walk and a window is thrown open in the upper courtyard...
Edward T. Wilcox, Chairman of the Committee on Advanced Standing, looked today toward the possibility that independent study under the course reduction program will be able to count toward concentration or upper-level distribution requirements...