Word: uppers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...know all of this. Maybe it's something like these thoughts that has made so many of you junkies of one sort or another. But you know enough to keep a stiff upper lip and go about your puttering. There probably isn't much we could do, even if we tried. Lunacy is very deeply rooted in this country, and I suppose in other lands...
...friends, keep a stiff upper lip. You freshmen and sophomores, maybe even juniors, to whom all this sounds a little strange: you just wait. You can get through it. If a full professor ever warns you that he can screw you on recommendations because of a news story you wrote about one of his committees, you just smile and pretend you didn't hear. He's probably a pretty nice guy-almost every one is in one way or another. It's just that I came here from a small town where I somehow. very foolishly, got the message that...
...Compared with 6% (by rough estimate) of all U.S. children. There are no certain figures on illegitimacy among the middle and upper classes, or their abortions. That solution is rarely available to the poor and culturally depressed...
Though a registrar in upper Bavaria recently accepted the name of Che-Christian-Fäusten Pospisil, the Treyzes have lost their battle in two lower courts. They are now appealing to higher courts, a process that may take as long as two years. Their child will be celebrating his first birthday next week, yet he is still legally nameless. Until the courts come to a final decision, Che-Michael will continue to be officially known in Erding by his registration number: 73/1970...
...than Dorothy Sayers'. It must be said, though, that Mr. Campion began life in The Black Dudley Murder (1928) in unblushing imitation of Sayers' rococo creation, Lord Peter Wimsey. Both were lean, languid young noblemen who spoke in the high whine that Waugh classified as the British upper class baying for broken glass. Both concealed great skill and cunning behind a facade of graceful, gratuitous vagueness...