Word: aristocrat
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Daimler-Benz, on the other hand, is considered conservative even by the Germans--an aristocrat in a double-breasted suit, haughtily dismissive of anyone who suggests cutting corners on quality for anything so ephemeral as profit. Says German car-magazine editor Wolfgang Konig: "Perfectionism is at home at Daimler. I get the feeling sometimes it was invented there...
...style of philosophy. But his reactions seem a bit overawed with the grossness of his situation. Ahanna Kalappa '01, on the other hand, plays an utterly confident Lavinia Chamberlayne with masterful posture. She takes advantage of a relatively late entrance by immediately assuming the dignified air of a whimsical aristocrat who has left her husband and then come back, without regret...
...else was unpleasant, to say the least: it's tacky by any standards to start dating your lover's nurse while she's laid up in the hospital. Hall was also a possessive and controlling lover, a consistently neglectful parent to Una Troubridge's young daughter Andrea, a lifelong aristocrat and elitist, and a political conservative whose early allegiances swayed toward fascism and anti-Semitism--none of them traits are precisely endearing to a modern audience...
...Jack is idealized as a poor free spirit who just happens to be a sensitive artist. DiCaprio displays a youthful charm, and occasionally an intensity that recalls some of his past superb work. The script requires the young Rose (Kate Winslet) to be essentially two different characters: a repressed aristocrat and a rebellious teenager. The imaginative Winslet carefully balances these opposing characteristics with complete success...
Tocqueville, a French aristocrat who travelled in America, recognized the inevitability of the equalizing of conditions in American democracy, but he failed to account for the industrial revolution and the subsequent emergance of market forces, West said...