But despite that and a number of edges that the " Chocolat " confectioner has smoothed over, evidently to make the movie more consumable for his core audience of aged gentlefolk, Proulx fans could actually have done a lot worse.
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Normally the lowest of the low on the labor market, on May Day the sweeps wore brilliant blue-and-gold dress costumes and danced in the streets, and were treated like gentlefolk by people who normally shrank from their dirty hands.
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It was constructed in 1930 as a branch of the Provident Loan Society of New York, serving for 63 years as an upscale pawnshop where distressed gentlefolk could discreetly hock the family silver . ( " Now I know where to come,"
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Born into a family he describes as " impoverished gentlefolk, " he went to a local school in Hammersmith, west London, where he briefly dipped into a street accent of his own before graduating from Oxford with a degree in English literature.
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His showbiz smoothies and narcissists may inhabit a world far removed from that of the bureaucrats and gentlefolk of Czarist Russia, but the story's sympathetic, tragic sense of the fragility of individual dignity is, if anything, made even more haunting in this version.
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She founded a number of organizations including the Jerusalem Literary Society, which was the forerunner to the Palestine Exploration Fund, the Society for the Relief of Persecuted Jews ( Syrian Colonization Fund ) and the Distressed Gentlefolk Aid Association ( now known as Elizabeth Finn Care ).
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Edwards took the part of Professor James Edwards, M . A ., the drunken, gambling, devious, cane-swishing headmaster who tyrannised staff and children at Chiselbury public school ( described in the opening titles as " for the sons of Gentlefolk " ).
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The film also deals with the theme of urban melancholy, of the " bhadralok ", the gentlefolk, through Anand Babu, a businessman trapped in a bad marriage, whose wife is constantly busy in beauty-parlours and parties, and seeks company in Pushpa and alcohol.
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When it did come out as a Vintage Contemporary ( which has since gone through 33 more printings ), " Psycho " was excoriated throughout the media, by women's groups and in all places where gentlefolk put forth opinion, usually by people who hadn't read it.
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And the audience-- " loyal, impoverished gentlefolk " like Brigadier Walters, Lady Tenterton and the eccentric Miss Pilgrim-- responded with fabric and nightly attendance in the front row . " Audiences today would scarcely believe how awful we were, " Somes recalls . " But we did begin ."
