Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Centers for Russian Research, Middle Eastern, and Far Eastern Studies will occupy the three upper floors of the Ambassador...
...upper banner the first two characters read "Down with." But the next four characters seem syntactically unrelated, though we know the meaning of each of them. In Romanized form they read, "Heh-lu-hsiao-fu." We feel that this must be the transliterated surname of some non-Chinese. Is it Khrushchev...
What is the upper age limit for becoming a parent? For men, the question is largely academic, because it is virtually impossible to be sure of a child's paternity, and most stories of centenarians whose wives produce children deserve nothing more than the knowing smiles they usually elicit. "Maternity," however, says Dr. Harvey Flack, editor of Britain's Family Doctor, "is an indisputable fact, usually witnessed by at least two people . . . And then the blessed event is solemnly recorded by the local registrar...
Such doings may sound like something the author picked up at the last sale of Waugh assets. Actually, this account of the giddy life in an upper-class club for young women in London just after V-E day is touched by a cheerful inhumanity all Muriel Spark's own. "As they realized themselves," she writes about the May of Teck Club members, "few people alive at the time were more delightful, more ingenious, more movingly lovely, and, as it might happen, more savage...
...Tribal Rites. In any case, Mary McCarthy, Vassar '33, brings an insider's view to a U.S. social phenomenon unique in the English-speaking world: the college-educated woman who stays "college-centered" in a way that English upper-class boys are fixed in patterns by their public schools. The Group is a pioneer work in the anthropology of this female tribe. It describes its initiation ceremonies, its tribal rites, its system of punishment for deviation. Its appeals are neither to God nor to what used to be called prophetically "mere man," but to the group opinion...