Word: aristocrat
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...becoming the epitome of the omnipotent New England matriarch, a self-reliant Puritan. Like Tess of the d'Urbervilles, she emerges the stronger in the contest of seduction and betrayal. Tess, "nature's noble woman," shows an earthy complicity in her own seduction; as an unlikely sort of peasant-aristocrat, she floats between opposite poles of believable human characterization...
...always fled from domestic problems. He was married twice, first to an ethereal aristocrat who declined to keep house, then to an heiress who tried to run his life. According to Birmingham, Marquand behaved badly to both, absenting himself for long periods of time or berating them publicly. He liked to mimic and mock them, and Birmingham unfortunately lets that tone of parody carry over into his own writing...
Perhaps. But, says Assistant Managing Editor Tim Leyland, "while he is not your intellectual aristocrat, he is a catalyzer. He's got a good grasp of trends and movement in society." Winship, 51, has made the paper sensitive to these trends and has also been receptive to the ideas of younger journalists. Last year he appointed a 29-year-old as metropolitan editor of the morning edition. "These brainy kids in the newsroom are our salvation," he told the American Society of Newspaper Editors. "They write better than we do, they know more than we do, and they...
...halcyon days as Harlem's Congressman, Adam Clayton Powell Jr. epitomized the rakishly handsome aristocrat who lives and loves with lofty disdain for what Powell called "picayune matters of personal morality." He often overstepped the bounds of good taste, but for most of his 35-year career as the black world's premier preacher, politician and playboy, Powell was a flamboyant symbol of success and the good life that most of his 430,000 largely black constituents could only dream about. He openly flouted the rules set down by whites, drove expensive foreign cars, dined at exclusive restaurants...
...anguish. Here, as in Occupied France, those who were comfortably fixed often took refuge in inertia and the hope that the whole thing would somehow go away. In 1972 Americans may find haunting the ravaged face and words of Emmanuel d'Astier de la Vigerie, a black-sheep aristocrat who helped found the liberation movement. "I think," he admits at one point, "that you joined the Resistance only if you were in some way maladjusted." Then he adds, "But of course if you always adjust to everything you are not a very attractive person...