Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...somewhat overage second lieutenant assigned to backwater posts in Ireland and Wales, where he passes his time studying anti-gas warfare and reading Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle-class English men and women who inhabit his fictional world. Not a great deal happens. Nick's brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, is killed while serving in France with the Field Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house trading with...
NOTHING BUT THE BEST. A lower-crust clerk (Alan Bates) hires an upper-crust crumb to teach him the niceties of Establishment snobbery in this cheeky, stylish, often superlative British satire...
...mark the event, scores of famed artists and friends packed Shawn's rustic theater. No matter that Papa Shawn and Miss Ruth had been "esthetically separated" - he lives in Florida, she in California - for more than 30 years now. Their Indian-inspired duet, entitled Siddhas (Angels) of the Upper Air, was an act of celebration and remembrance...
...college enrollment is expected to expand by nearly 8% this year alone. Furthermore, there is talk of year-round school and more interest in adult education-both of which would require additional equipment. The continuing demands of the space age are shifting emphasis even further to the upper levels, where the students need ever more sophisticated equipment as well as the basics-desk, chairs, supplies-that are the ABCs of the industry...
...interaction Eliot has managed to contrive among its many "levels:" the Alcestis myth, the theological essay, the drawing-room comedy. The language of the play, for example, is more than one kind of language; although it moves in strict classical meters, it reproduces exactly the cadences of upper middle-class London speech...