Word: clubmanship
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...into front men for the flourishing Mod movement. Representing a sort of secret style, a surly, dubious attitude and a way of life in which the work week was a lingering funeral and the weekend a temporary resurrection, Mod was a kind of berserk street refraction of traditional English clubmanship. Having the right clothes and shoes was important. Riding the right motor scooter was important. Gobbling the right pills in the right quantities and listening to the right music were important. All this has been captured well in Quadrophenia; there is a kind of masquerade Mod revival in England right...
Throughout the South, clubmanship has become the most popular way to avoid compliance with the discrimination-banning public accommodations section of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Even a "membership-only" hamburger joint is technically beyond reach of the law. "You've got to prove it's a sham," says John Doar, chief of the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division. "It's more than a matter of having a Negro testify that he was refused service. You've got to have a white person testify that he was served"-without actually being, a member...
Rather than complement the intellectual life of the campus, the club system competes with it. Siren-like, it woos and charms even the best students to the beguiling pleasures of good clubmanship. And the standards for the good clubman are not the standards for the good student...
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