Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Approving Bottoms. Between the wars-World I and II-Travers turned out a series of farces sketching a Wode-housean gallery of silly asses of the English upper class, alas unrelieved by a Jeeves. "They were quite good, but just things for laughter," Travers recalls. By the '50s, this collection of emotional still lifes seemed too pallid for the English stage, so Travers retired to the seaside to watch cricket. But when he was well into his 80s he decided to try again, and succeeded in broadening his vision and style without losing his comic bite, a feat that...
...tried his comeback because he feels "there is something to be said now which I've never been allowed to say in the past." The younger dramatists had cleared the way by campaigning against the official stage censor, a punctilious guardian of manners and language for the starchy upper-crust audience that had so inhibited English theater. (In the 1940s, one censor boasted to Travers of this ultimate stroke of permissiveness: "I was the first censor to pass the word bottom." The office was abolished...
...upper decks, dozens of old men claimed that they had been in the park the day the Babe housebroke it with a home run, April 18, 1923. Younger men claimed that they watched the day Mantle hit the ball that almost was the only one to clear the stadium, still rising when it smashed against the third deck tier, 565 feet from home plate...
...Upper Mystic Lake continued to mystify the Harvard sailors as Tony Leggett and co-captain Tom Repps skippered the Crimson to a sixth-place finish at the Jan T. Friis Trophy regatta on Saturday...
...always been an upper-class oriented team," second baseman Cronin explained. "In the past, freshmen and sophomores have been able to sit out and watch...