This wildly funny piece offered a caustic view of a vanished, class-bound England and contained hilarious parodies of everything from John Buchan to TE Lawrence.
But let's at least take a moment to wave farewell to the vanishing class of Americans who once drove these cars — the modest strivers who aimed not for the best, but the good enough.
Add all that to the stagnant wages, falling living standards, decreasing life expectancy, and vanishing class mobility, and you can see how being a white American feels like it's not what it used to be.
There are perhaps only two other Palestinian leaders -- Mahmoud Darwish and Shafik al-Hout -- who wield his intellectual and moral clout, part of a vanishing class of highly educated, urbane and courtly leaders whose voices defy religious and ideological extremism.
It seems scarcely credible now that anyone could have placed faith in an all but vanished working class.
However the relationships I held with my lab partners vanished when class ended.
The tenement, he said, was a rare reminder of the neighborhood's vanished working-class past.
Many of his poems these days are narrative, anecdotal elegies for that vanished working-class world, and as in the title poem of his Pulitzer-winning volume, he finds depths of beauty in the simplest of pleasures — food, for example: Can you taste what I'm saying?
The TV folks vanished into first class and business class, along with the Venezuelan committee member.
Meanwhile, the vanishing middle class has been subdued "with purchases of chocolate and lager", as well as "jingoism, and an abiding unctuousness toward the rich".
The answers have to do with the vanishing middle class, an identity crisis among social conservatives, and the failure of George W. Bush's "compassionate conservatism".
