Keeping Up Appearances is a Britishsitcom about the constant struggles of the protagonist Hyacinth Bucket (which she pronounces as Bouquet) to appear of a higher social class than she is. The shows frequently revolve around her latest scheme to move up in life (for example her "sophisticated candlelit suppers") getting foiled.
... school, he, in company with Michelet and others, formed the "centre," midway between Erdmann and Gabler on the one hand, and the "extreme left" represented by Strauss, ...