Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...tanks, 60 of them Russian and Czech vehicles in the 30- and 35-ton class, plus four new 43-ton T-54 Soviet tanks that have night-fighting, infra-red sights and mount a 100-mm. gun, can outperform anything except the newest...
Invitation to a March (by Arthur Laurents) takes place, on the eve of a summer wedding, outside two Long Island beach houses. In one house are the young bride and her middle-class mother, with the groom and his rich parents as house guests. In the other house lives a woman who many summers before, had a passionate affair with the groom's father, and with her lives the fruit of that affair, her proudly loyal son. This son now meets the unawakened bride, and love flares up; the father meets the woman again, and love has its past...
Like Kennedy, Lerner went on to Harvard, class of 1940, where he majored in French and Italian literature. He knew all the current show tunes by heart, and walking down Mount Auburn Street one night, he burst out: "I want to write songs!" He worked on the Hasty Pudding Club musicals of 1938 and '39, filled them with promising, pun-filled lyrics, put in two summers at Manhattan's Juilliard School to learn more about music...
...points out that he plays a new part with each. Ruth Boyd (1940-47) was Social Register. Marion Bell (1947-49) was his Leading Lady, as she was in Brigadoon, and she came to the wedding with her music teacher. Actress Nancy Olson (1950-57) was the Upper-Middle-Class-All-Amer-ican-Girl (Lerner referred to her once as "the perfect wife"). Micheline Muselli Pozzo di Borgo (1957 ), a slim, blonde, Corsican beauty equipped with a law degree and a fine record at the French bar, is Sophisticated European Woman...
...keep them on as salacious papers," he said. "Frankly I don't want to get in that kind of rat race." Under Thomson, the Kemsley chain, once starchily conservative, has drifted towards the middle of the road. There Thomson is wooing Britain's rising mid dle class. He has added a culture-packed Saturday supplement to several of his dailies, beefed up news columns, hired cor respondents on the Continent to expand foreign coverage, "Looking All the Time." "Actually," said one Thomson employee last week, "the only conservative thing about Thom son is his money." Thomson encourages this...