Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...others besides its leaders, and we believe that to report the gross national product is only the beginning of describing a nation. From Germany in recent months we have had a number of stories describing changes in that country's way of lite -the breaking-up of the upper class ("an eclipse of princes"), the role of marriage brokers, the practice of nudism, the absorption of Germans expelled from Communist territory, the way Germans are buying up foreign real estate ("Lebensraum with a View"). But few of them have stirred up more reaction or been more widely reprinted than...
...pours oceans of immigrant experience into a mother's tears. The Italian Lesson, beginning with Dante's "Midway upon the journey of our life I found myself in a dark wood, where the right way was lost," exposes all the confusion, vapidity, and self-delusion that an upper-class middle-aged woman can pack into a single morning...
...examine her abdomen," Dr. Gerisch reports in the Harper Hospital Bulletin, "she drew up her legs and started to laugh, even before I touched her. Her mother said their pediatrician had never been able to examine her abdomen. I said, 'Put your right hand there' (right upper quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. I said, 'Put your hand down there' (right lower quadrant). 'Does that tickle?' She said no. Then I placed my hand on top of her hand, and asked whether it tickled, and she said no. I then said...
...Thrill of It All presents, among other things, what may be the chicest accouchement of all time: Arlene Francis has a baby in the back seat of a Rolls-Royce stalled in a Manhattan traffic jam on-of course-the upper East Side; the doctor, who arrives on horseback, swaddles the infant in a fresh copy of the New York Times, then bundles it in a mink lap robe...
Nothing Royal. Getting the summer customer into the hotel, though, is only half the battle. Coming from the center of the pie rather than the upper crust, the off-season tourist makes his dollar stretch a country mile. Many Nassau bars and restaurants close down for the summer, and the specialty-shop operators yearn for winter's big-time spenders. "In the winter they buy Royal Crown Derby," says a Virgin Islands china-shop owner. "In the summer, it's Heinrich." Social directors sometimes grouse that the summer people are unschooled in resort life. "They...