Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hand again this year to referee the struggle with the contents of the manila envelope is Stanley K. Leonard, graduate student who was in charge of last fall's registration. The only change in the rigamarole already familiar to upper classmen, according to Leonard, is that the envelopes contain one more card than they did last year. The new addition requests information regarding the status of students with respect to the Selective Service Act and is designed to give the University some idea of what is to become of the student body. Special regulations covering students who leave for military...
...Secretary, Head Forest Ranger Bill Augustine had had his men tidy a weatherbeaten five-room log cabin on Mt. Storm King in Olympic National Park, the "last big woods" in the U.S., at the extreme upper-lefthand corner of the map. Harold Ickes pulled on a pair of the most unpressed trousers the natives had ever seen, an old grey sweater, a pair of scuffed brown oxfords, and opened his shirt-collar. His young red-haired wife, Jane (Dahlman), changed to tight-fitting blue cowboy dungarees, jodhpur boots, a tan wool jacket. Safe at home, 3,000 miles away...
Such was the upper-crust life in Mapleton, 1940, according to Writer Barnard, who is 29 and obviously knows his milieu and his people thoroughly. The end of the book is corny; it portrays Park Gushing, disintegrating because of wife trouble, brought to the verge of regeneration by a bad shock. But Revelry By Night is fluently readable, at times masterfully comic, and-for a first novel-a surprisingly deft study of a way of life that seems doomed to perish, as those in The Sun Also Rises, The Great Gatsby and Appointment in Samarra already have...
...play the hoary fable for its horror. They have dressed it up with overtones of Freud in which Tracy's transformation to Hyde is accompanied by symbolic montage shots of a bounding lion (the beast in Hyde); lilies (the purity of luscious Lana Turner, Jekyll's upper-crust fiancee) ; an hourglass (Jekyll's frustration). The result of this phantasmagoria is boredom...
This, the 1941 Harper Prize ($10,000) novel, is a problem book about marriage among U.S. upper-middle class, eastern-seaboard, Smith-or-Vassar bred, young housewives. It is written in their official dialect, by one of them. For the rest of them, it will probably be the novel of the season...