“If the locution ‘a Seven and Seven’ is strange to you, if your nose wrinkles a bit at the idea of drinking a shot of Seagram’s Seven Crown mixed with Seven-Up, you are safely at or near the top [of the social order], or at least not deeply compromised by the sugar fixation of the bottom.”
—Paul Fussell, Class: A Guide Through the American Status System, (New York: Touchstone, 1992), p. 99.
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