Word: classed
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...midterm, in appreciation, we had written the following for underground class distribution...
...salve male souls, the female showing was not entirely based on driving skills. Explains blonde Mary Davis, 31,3 Hollywood restaurant owner and the driver of the winning Plymouth Belvedere in the low-price, eight-cylinder class: "We women did damned well in the mouth department-and we didn't do too badly in the driving either." At the stops along the course, the women indeed did a good job of talking their male competitors into states of nervous exhaustion. Said Mary Davis: "Anyone who's on the road for hours at a time like this is inclined...
...tall, slim Mary Hauser, a Hollywood housewife who knows little about the innards of automobiles ("I don't even know where the oil stick is"), the economy run seemed relatively simple. Said Mrs. Hauser, winner of the low-price, six-cylinder class in a Plymouth Savoy: "I think male drivers are high-strung, tense, too worried about stepping on the accelerator without thinking. Me, I just sit there calmly, smoking a cigarette, steering with one hand-and shaking my teeth." Tennis...
...decline of the sentimental love nov el is a sizable calamity in Fiedler's eyes. In Continental terms, the aristocratic Lovelace's siege of Clarissa's stoutly preserved virginity was a class struggle of courtly manners v. the rising middle class. Transferred to the democratic U.S., it became a puritan's version of the war between the sexes. Woman stood for Virtue, Man for Vice. Having struck down the paternal authority of prince and prelate, the immigrant-rebel found that the voice of conscience, convention and society sounded strangely feminine. The divine right of kings...
Things were different at the beginning of the 19th century. The eventual winner of the class war, the junior executive, had not even been invented. The upper classes of England, alarmed at Jacobin rumblings from France, put down the undeserving poor with vigor. And one of the battlefields on which they did so, in the view of Author Moers, was that of dress. Leading a languid but deadly charge for the aristocracy was a new and resplendent creature, the dandy (whom the author distinguishes from the mere fop by the social forces that created him). Thomas Carlyle wrote unsympathetically that...