Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Take some Holden Caulfield crap about adolescents trying to find themselves, and a rebellion from the strictures of upper-class society, and you've got the makings of a monumental literary stereotype...
...fearless, but hapless Cobey arose only to fall again under a rain of upper-cuts. This time Cobey not only stood up, but he also fought back. Instead of jabbing and retreating, however, Cobey abandoned defenses and tried to trade punches. It was an unfavorable exchange for Cobey who was decked for the third time. The referee then stopped the fight
These critics see the general education program as the last bulwark sep- erating the College from being the first four years of the GSAS. They share the vision of the Redbook committee that the upper-level general education courses would offer support, encouragement, and staffing to interesting courses, experimental courses, which were not specialized enough to interest any single department. Where these critics differ from the Redbook committee is in their vision of the required lower-level courses as an opportunity to offer all this, plus a captive audience...
According to the program, Sandy plays Ellen Gordon, the mistress of Tycoon John Cleves (Don Porter). For Internal Revenue purposes, she is a tax dodge. His corporate tax returns list no executive sweetie, only the executive suite that she occupies rent-free on Manhattan's upper East Side. For her tycoon, Sandy is the marriage dodge, the once-weekly moonlighting that leaves John wan each Thursday...
Except for Talk to Me, Baby ("Tell me lies, lies, lies"), Robert Emmett Dolan's score is rather do-re-mealy for Johnny Mercer's lyrics, which are at their cleverest in Bon Vivant, delivered by Lahr impersonating a British peer with mauve tweeds and a stiff upper lisp. In fact, without Bert Lahr's vintage hokum, Foxy would be earthbound, not mirthbound...