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Born near Liverpool into an upper-middle-class family, Harrison started acting professionally when he was only 16. "Those were the days when people said that only fish and actors travel on Sundays, and I toured for ten solid years. Nobody saw me, and I was bloody awful. But at least I learned my craft." People, meaning London critics and producers, began seeing him on the West End in 1931. By the beginning of World War II he had established a reputation in Britain and was able to sleep late on Sundays, just like any other English gentleman...
...School: Under Cover with the Class of '80, is sometimes indiscriminate and intemperate in his attack. He takes a swipe at just about everything that E.T.S. is and does. In addition, his criticisms of the SAT include the familiar but debatable contention that it is based on a white, upper-middle-class, suburban point of view, thus penalizing blacks and other urban minorities...
...convoluted script of Scenes From American Life, gives the feeling that the wrong life is being staged. Despite the confusing script, quite a few scenes are very entertaining and the acting in sometimes excellent. The American life that the play presents is the life of the upper-class WASP, specifically those in Buffalo...
...wall, loudly talking to no one in particular. On one platform, waiting passengers cover their ears as a mass of hurtling steel comes screeching from the blackness of the tunnel beyond. Smoke from a fire on a distant track wafts through the station. A crowded train from the Upper West Side sits simmering on another track for 20 minutes while static from a broken speaker drowns out the conductor's incomprehensible explanation. "I'm afraid to get in that subway system even when I'm with my bodyguard," says Senator Alfonse D'Amato, a Long Islander. "Even my bodyguard...
That's a pretty stupid thing to say. My upper middle class enclave just happens to be 15 minutes closer to downtown than the ones in the suburbs. Ah, but herein lies' "attitude." Admittedly, I think big cities should impose commuter taxes to force rich parasites, who enjoy the docile rurified advantages of suburban existence, to pay for their share of may city's public services. Of course in my mind, the city life offers many advantages over life in the suburbs, but that's just a personal valuation, and I have no business foisting it on anyone else...