Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While situated in a dull little hamlet in New York's upper Dutchess County, there is nothing about the place to make the itinerant Bohemian feel himself in Philistia. For Bard, in its unique approach to the liberal and creative arts stresses education of the individual to such a degree that intellectual and social individualism have run wild on the campus...
...will take his first year will be in this major. Not until a student in completely sure of what he desires to major in and is able to demonstrate to the faculty of his division his capability for independent work, is he able to enter what is college the Upper College. This ordinarily takes place after roughly two years at the college when the Bardian undertakes what is called the "Moderation...
This consists of a written and oral evaluation by the student of what he has already done in college, and a projection of his plans throughout the Upper College period, which he defends before a faculty committee. This is the single important checking-point where inventory of the student is taken before the senior year. Ordinarily, a student who fails this Moderation is dismissed...
...scene: India's Upper House of Parliament. The issue: U.S. airlift of French reinforcements across Asia to Indo-China. The question from the floor: Would the U.S. Globemasters "transgress" Indian territory? Prime Minister Nehru's reply: "It has been the policy of the government for the past six years not to allow foreign troops to pass through or fly over India." There was indeed such an Indian policy, but Nehru chose to restate it in a desperate hour when his remarks would give sharp offense to the U.S. (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS). Parliament got the point; M.P.s cheered...
Jeeves is playing vassal to a new thane this time. Scatterbrained Bertie Wooster, for once apprehensive about the economic future of the British upper classes, has packed himself off to a home-economics school to learn all about cooking, sock-mending and polishing his own boots. Jeeves is on internal lend-lease to William, ninth Earl of Towcester, an amiable chap with "a marked shortage of the little gray cells ... It was generally agreed that whoever won the next Nobel Prize, it would not be Bill Towcester...