Word: upper
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Rules of the Game. Did we say seering social satire? Certainly the sting and class indictment in this story about an upper crust weekend at a country estate is undeniable. And yet Renoir also manages to pay tribute to loneliness, love and the more harmless foibles of servants and bourgeois along the way. Added to priceless observations, this film treats us to the acting talents of Renoir himself, as the oafish, big-spirited Octave, who in the name of civility and social convention must see his true and secret love unrequited. See this masterpiece, again--and if you've already...
Edward M. Korry is one iconoclast whose political criticism of the U.S. government was so damaging that he felt the need to leave the country and settle in Britian. Korry was Nixon's ambassador to Chile during Allende's presidency, and has been one of the few upper echelon figures to tell all he knows of U.S. intervention efforts there. In a television interview last month Korry said he was told by Nixon that the United States would not tolerate a Marxist regime like Allende's in the Western Hemisphere, and that he (Nixon) had ordered the CIA to interfere...
...study with a discussion of the Cavafy genealogy, Liddell traces the poet's boyhood in Alexandria, London and Constantinople; his return to Alexandria as a young man; and his attempts to conceal his homosexuality from the Alexandrian society in which his family moved--despite their displacement from the upper-class Greek community to a state of near-impoverishment. The book is to a certain extent a biography of the entire family, for Cavafy (who never married, although he may have had heterosexual affairs in early manhood), lived with his mother until her death, and was in frequent contact with...
...German universities were becoming indoctrination centers for Nazism, many U.S. universities were teaching upper class youth about their own "superior genes." Throughout this period, Harvard frequently played a vanguard role in promoting this ideology...
...such a quick end to such a quick career. The son of a Puerto Rican mother and a Hungarian father, Prinze had used his wit to survive among the teen-age toughs in the Latino section of Manhattan's Upper West Side. Disarming his foes with switchblade-sharp one-liners, he avoided the fighting he hated. At the High School for Performing Arts, Prinze's ability to twit his own background-the comedic formula he never abandoned-earned him star status in the boys' room, where he would try out his routines. His ethnic-based act worked...