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«The nearest we have to a Henry James or an Edith Wharton of the East Coast's Wasp upper classes.»
Author: Charlotte Curtis
| Keywords:
East Coast, Edith, Edith Wharton, Henry James, Near East, upper class, wasp, wasps, Wharton
«Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad.»
Author: David Denby
| Keywords:
arugula, middle class, satirical, slip away, summoned, upper-middle-class, upper class, white wine, whole thing
«Intellect won, though not easily or decisively. Gradually, painfully, the upper-class colleges severed as amicably as possible their links with the least-qualified members of the prominent families.»
Author: Gene R. Hawes
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amicably, decisively, links, prominent, qualified, severed, severing, severs, upper, upper class
«People of Wealth and the so called upper class suffer the most from boredom.»
«The decisive moment in the defeat of upper class, capital-S, Society may have come when, in newspapers all over the nation, what used to be call the Society page was replaced by the Style section.»
«There are three social classes in America: upper middle class, middle class, and lower middle class»
Author: Judith S. Marin
| Keywords:
middle class, social class, social classes, upper-middle-class, upper, upper class
«Evolution is what it is. The upper classes have always died out; it's one of the most charming things about them.»
«In verity we are the poor. This humanity we would claim for ourselves is the legacy, not only of the Enlightenment, but of the thousands and thousands of European peasants and poor townspeople who came here bringing their humanity and their sufferings with them. It is the absence of a stable upper class that is responsible for much of the vulgarity of the American scene. Should we blush before the visitor for this deficiency?»
Author: Mary McCarthy
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blush, European, sufferings, the Enlightenment, townspeople, upper class, verities, verity
«It's not a matter of upper and lower class but of being up a while and down a while.»
«The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.»
Author: Oscar Wilde
(Critic, Dramatist, Novelist, Poet)
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at any rate, fortunately, radically, theory of, unsound, upper class
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