Word: aristocrat
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Undershaft: To give arms to all men who offer an honest price for them, without respect of persons or principles: to aristocrat and republican, to Nihilist and Tsar, to Capitalist and Socialist . . . all faiths, all follies, all causes and all crimes.-Bernard Shaw's Major Barbara...
...production of Coriolanus that a stamping, ranting Olivier bulled his way to fame. This time his performance is subtler. His Coriolanus is prickly in triumph, venomous in defeat, an uncompromising totalitarian. But Olivier also builds a credible, Nietzschean human being, a sarcastic soldier-aristocrat and sour-eyed supersnob of the type well known to the British. Wrote the London Times: "The acting of Sir Laurence Olivier has grown marvelously in power and beauty. He plays it just as well as it can be played...
...Alosp brothers concentrate nearly a third of their book, The Reporter's Trade, on an attack on bureaucratic secrecy regulations and devote the rest of their space to smug discussion of how they got around these regulations. Their opening chapters on what it is like to be an aristocrat and a reporter, how Washington reporting has changed, and the mortal penalty a society pays for not facing its big decisions in the open are only occasionally either penetrating of powerful. The selected columns which make up the body of the volume are neither effective records or the decay...
...suggests, would go well on a butler or a bishop. As Author Linklater tells it in his savagely comic novel, Vanbrugh spent a profitable war as a wingless wing commander in the R.A.F. and ends his career as a superior flunky in the household of a Texas aristocrat. Says he: "I see my destiny, I recognize my genius ... but England, I have not abandoned you. No more than Clive or Hastings, Raffles or Lugard . . . have I deserted...
...cheering crowds in India, Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh, has appeared every inch the genial aristocrat, exactly the sort of nobleman to be married to Britain's gracious Queen Elizabeth. But to the newsmen and photographers scrambling to cover his world-girdling tour of the British Commonwealth, Prince Philip was a relentless foeman...