Word: uppercrust
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unrest. As a matter of political tactics, the Labor Party decided to treat the Profumo affair not so much as a moral indictment of uppercrust Britain but rather as another flagrant example of the erratic workings of Britain's security system, If, argued Laborites, British intelligence had known all along that Britain's War Minister had shared a call girl with a Soviet agent, why was nothing done to break up a liaison that might expose him to Russian blackmail? Was Macmillan told? If so, had the government encouraged Profumo to lie about his dalliance with Christine...
...Javits' wife has long sought a suitable form of self-expression. She tried painting, ballet dancing, flying, acting (she had a bit part in a 1960 movie, Who Was That Lady?}, before turning to journalism. Last summer she began writing a column for Manhattan East, an uptown uppercrust weekly...
GARY: La Dolce Vita. Federico Fellini's masterpiece exposes the decadent uppercrust that haunts Romo's Via Veneto, Spectacular photograph and unnumbered orgies spot-light a memorable if not continually absorbing expose...