Word: uppercrust
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Unrest. As a matter of political tactics, the Labor Party decided to treat the Profumo affair not so much as a moral indictment of uppercrust Britain but rather as another flagrant example of the erratic workings of Britain's security system, If, argued Laborites, British intelligence had known all along that Britain's War Minister had shared a call girl with a Soviet agent, why was nothing done to break up a liaison that might expose him to Russian blackmail? Was Macmillan told? If so, had the government encouraged Profumo to lie about his dalliance with Christine...
...Javits' wife has long sought a suitable form of self-expression. She tried painting, ballet dancing, flying, acting (she had a bit part in a 1960 movie, Who Was That Lady?}, before turning to journalism. Last summer she began writing a column for Manhattan East, an uptown uppercrust weekly...
GARY: La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini's masterpiece exposes the decadent uppercrust that haunts Romo's Via Veneto, Spectacular photograph and unnumbered orgies spot-light a memorable if not continually absorbing expose...
...literary London, where the vogue in controversy runs to turtlenecked highbrows and Angry Young Men, the latest brouhaha is whirling around an unlikely book by an unlikelier author: a mystery shocker called Dr. No, by an uppercrust Tory named Ian Fleming. The book marks the sixth appearance of James Bond, 007 by code number, a deadpan British secret-service agent with high tastes and low instincts. With the help of an estimated 1,250,000 British readers, Bond has boosted Creator Fleming high on the bestseller lists and into the gunsights of outraged critics. They blast him as a kind...
Through the Uppercrust. Even before she ran away from home with a troupe of traveling Shakespearean players, Elsa met (through her father's theatrical friends) the great Caruso and a couple of Jacks: London and Barrymore. She traveled to Europe and Africa as the piano accompanist of a vaudeville singer, and soon she had cut her way through the upper crust of three continents. Included among the names she drops: Actress Elsie Jams' mother, a thrifty Ohio housewife intent on buying her way into British society ("John dear, fetch a 75? Corona for the noble lord"), Mrs. O.H.P...