Word: uppercrustedly
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Layered Crust. Though all Monkeys are definitely uppercrust, the crust seems to come in layers. One alumna explains of the Pont Street houses: "We used to call them by their generic names. One was the Commercial House, where all the big-business daughters went. Then there was the Sporting House, where all the girls' fathers owned race horses. Finally, there was the Indian Colonels House, full of rather pale girls who had been brought up in foreign climes...
...Record story continues, "Harvard, officially, wants football to be a nice, genteel game played by uppercrust boys--at however, the same admission fees. He (Jordan) is saying that football should be emphasized, and re-emphasized, and not de-emphasized...
...picture hits the line too hard. As a poor, first-generation American hungering for education, glory, and acceptance in the uppercrust world typified by Jackson College, Halfback Derek gets buried in such a pile-up of broken illusions that the movie looks like a put-up job. Football brings him fleeting glory, leaves him no time to study, wins him only the snooty tolerance of Jackson's aristocrats and (until the fadeout) the well-born girl (Donna Reed) he loves. It crushes his body and his self-respect to feed the ambitions of a string-pulling alumnus (Sidney Blackmer...
...years, North Dakota's clangorous Republican Senator "Wild Bill" Langer has thumped loud & long as a one-man lobby against new federal appointments. His complaint: North Dakotans are the finest people in the U.S., yet not since statehood (1889) has any native Dakotan been appointed to an uppercrust federal job. Last week Bill Langer was happy. The President nominated, and the Senate quickly confirmed, a wealthy North Dakota grain buyer and farmer as ambassador to Nicaragua...
...waning art season put forth a bright, belated bloom last week-a 57th Street show of sophisticated, slaphappy paintings by Writer-Illustrator Ludwig Bemelmans, 53. Done mostly with gouache, "because it comes in charming little French jars and doesn't smell," they spoofed and also celebrated the drifting, uppercrust, good-time world that Bemelmans inhabits. Their style mingled childlike cheer and simplicity with penknife stabs of caricature...