Cambridge is my alma mater in truth, and I do tend to cling to her skirts, despite Eddy's disgust.

On a more informal level, one will find in many bars and restaurants a stammtisch, a table reserved for groups of regular customers. What's significant about the stammtisch is that the stammtisch sign on it invokes a whole set of social norms and judgments involving whether one's party is “regular” enough to claim it.

The answer appears on the seventy-fourth page of the book.

One was the military and imperialist middle class, generally nicknamed the Blimps, and the other the left-wing intelligentsia.