Word: aristocrat
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Karl Marx was very rude about people like William Morris, the poet, artist-craftsman and social revolutionary. "Christian Socialism," he wrote in the Communist Manifesto, "is but the holy water with which the priest consecrates the heart-burnings of the aristocrat...
Posing as the lackey of a nonexistent count, Sellers persuades the senorita to wait with him evening after evening for the aristocrat to arrive. Out of bore dom, Eklund endures him, then tolerates him, and at last-her cool melted by champagne-falls in love. The morning after Sellers wins his wager, he confesses all in an orgy of guilt. Raging, the seducee marches him at shotgun point to a bathtub full of cerulean stain. Bobo is last seen in a bullfight poster proclaiming his indisputably unique credentials as "The Singing Blue Matador...
Died. Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 78, twice (1939-45, 1956-62) President of Peru, a courtly aristocrat and banker, who during both of his administrations gave early, unwavering support to the U.S., first against Hitler, later by breaking diplomatic relations with Cuba's Castro, as wartime leader took impressive strides toward industrialization, and did much to stem an inflationary tide during his second term; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Stauffenberg was a Roman Catholic, an aristocrat, a family man, and a person of culture in the traditional German romantic, almost mystical mold. His Swabian antecedents were landowners and officials ennobled in Wurttem-berg for services to the state. He was regarded by military men, including a chief of staff of the Wehrmacht, as a "natural commander." Even in intellectual circles, he was recognized as having a peculiar distinction of spirit. His face mirrored both the mystic and the soldier. Although a Catholic, Stauffenberg found an added outlet for his private form of religion in the "circle of Stefan George...
...mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...