Word: aristocrat
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...utter folly that one should criticize Lord Home's appointment on the basis that he is an aristocrat and therefore has little knowledge of, and even less compassion for, the problems of the laborer. Franklin D. Roosevelt, the unquestioned champion of the American workingman and a wealthy aristocrat of the first order, would presumably also be considered by Mr. Harold Wilson an "elegant anachronism." I believe such a label would, in fact, be held in contempt by the vast majority of Mr. Wilson's own Labor Party. As can be seen by the example of Mr. Roosevelt...
...sardonic urbanity and quick, quizzical intelligence, Alam, 45, is a British-educated aristocrat to his manicured fingernails. He is a millionaire by inheritance, married into one of Iran's greatest landowning families, and lives like a prince (which he is) in a palace on the slopes overlooking Teheran. Padding about in a silk dressing gown or British tweeds amidst his huge flower gardens, Olympic-sized swimming pool, stables and servants, Alam seems wildly unlikely as the administrator of revolutionary social reforms aimed at liberating the masses from centuries of feudalism. He is not even sure that he likes...
What many Tories overlooked in the scramble to "denobilize" their leader is that Home's virtues are incurably those of the aristocrat: honor, charm, utter self-confidence, the dedication-and none of the condescension-of no blesse oblige...
Beside him, Henry Miller is but a cheerfully smutty college sophomore, Sade a dilettant aristocrat of eccentric habits, Gide a genteel old lady sedately cultivating nightshade in her little kitchen garden...
Denning even questioned witnesses about the warm-blooded aristocrat who, said Mandy and others, served Mayfair dinner guests in a black mask and little else. Finally, after a secretary had typed Denning's 60,000 handwritten words on his findings, Macmillan spent a late night digesting the top-secret report, called a special Cabinet meeting to discuss it, and showed it to Opposition Leader Harold Wilson. Then Denning's opus went to the printer for official publication this week...