Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...attitudes is "Chappaquiddick." The word is heard often and is used, says Alabama Democratic State Chairman Bob Vance, "like a kick in the groin." In the Deep South most folks criticize Kennedy for having an unmarried girl in his car, which offends Southern Baptist fundamentalism. In the more moderate upper South, folks talk about Teddy's abdication of responsibility by swimming away from his duty in panic...
...word that has to be looked up to be appreciated. "Velleity: volition in its weakest form." Rogin applies it proudly and neatly to his man Singer, a magazine writer becalmed somewhere around 40. Although his outlook is "upper-middle-class, Upper West Side...
Sutherland began by thinking of herself as a dramatic soprano. She feared high notes until her husband, Conductor Richard Bonynge, tricked her into extending her upper voice by playing her music in higher keys. Originally bright and youthful-sounding, her voice darkened as she transformed herself into a coloratura. There is a suggestion of Callas' famous middle register in Sutherland's vocal center-a tone that sounds as if the singer were singing into the neck of a resonant bottle...
COLUMBIA--BROWN--This used to be the most frightening game on both team's schedules. The opponents were usually both winless and whoever lost this match had to bury its head in the Ivy League dung. Now, to and behold, the Lions have advanced to upper-middle mediocrity. What a way to end a season. Columbia will go out loving it, and the fans will remember the team of '71 that put football back on the New York City collegiate map. Lions...
Long said that Americans can no longer safely walk the streets in Vietnamese cities because of anti-American feeling there. "Even the upper middle class people in South Vietnam hate the U. S. so much that they will kill Americans walking in the street," he stated...