Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...since come to expect such serious efforts in its primaries. The state itself takes its politics in dead earnest. Though it is 45th among the states in population (606,921), its 400-member house of representatives is the fourth-largest in the English-speaking world (after Britain's Upper and Lower Chambers and the U.S. House), giving a remarkable number of people a crack at active roles in politics. In a sense, the house perpetuates the New England town meeting, and in that sort of atmosphere even the most attractive candidates are hard put to get a bandwagon rolling...
...looks like a Monopoly board toward the end of a hot game. Half a dozen houses now share the hilltop where Charlie Chaplin's castle and tennis court once stood in lonely splendor. The city is home to a new sort of populace-an ever-thrusting band of upper-middle-classmen, walking bank accounts without names who are determined to live up to the legacy of glamour. They are concerned not with style but with status...
Certainly David Riesman is America's best critic and, of course, an American critic must be a critic of our middle class. Upper-middle brows like to swat the middle-class with back issues of the New Republic, and Paul Goodman castigates the masses with vindictive paternalism. Riesman is less sure of himself, less polemical. In turn, he takes himself less seriously...
...existence of an upper echelon within the Senate, and occasionally within the House, has long been a public secret in Washington. Everyone knows it exists, but the men who belong to the inner circle take only quiet pride in their membership. The men who hope eventually to work their way into this conclave know they hurt their own chances by talking about it. Senator Joseph Clark (D-Penn.), who is not a member, insured his continued ostracism by devoting three days on the floor last February to a description of what he called the "Senate Establishment" and to a list...
With six minutes left, Brown once again gained the upper hand, 52-51, and opened up the gap to 57-54. Guard Gene Dressler then hit a field goal and was fouled. This was the first in a parade of Bruin fouls that handed the Yardlings six easy points. They went into the lead 62-57 and never again relinquished...