Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...most celebrated candidate in Panama's 1964 congressional elections was a dashing aristocrat named Roberto ("Tito") Arias. Part of his glory was admittedly reflected: both his father and an uncle had been Presidents of Panama, and his wife was Britain's foremost ballerina, Dame Margot Fonteyn. But Tito Arias could claim his own marks as well. Twice (when his family or friends were in power) he had been his country's Ambassador to London. Twice (when opposition families were in power) he had led spectacular, quixotic plots to overthrow the government, the last time in 1959 when...
...area of Germany that lacks the fierce regional pride that burns so intensely in many parts. He came from a home that was both Lutheran (his father) and Catholic (his stepmother), though he himself is a Catholic today. His regal bearing leads most people to think he is an aristocrat, but he springs, in fact, from a lower-middle-class family, in which he was the eldest of seven children. His father?now a sprightly 90?was a bookkeeper in a textile mill in the town of Ebingen...
...much by disposition as descent, Harry Flood Byrd was an aristocrat. Like his fellow Virginian, Thomas Jef ferson, he had doubts about a truly demotic society. In courtly but inflexible fashion, Byrd also believed that good government, like a good servant, should intrude as little as possible. He himself spent 50 years in public service, 33 of them in the U.S. Senate, and until the day of his retirement from politics in November 1965, he remained a gracious, gallant, increasingly isolated foe of big government and big spending. When he died last week of a malignant brain tumor, after lingering...
Among the country's half-dozen major museums, Cleveland has long enjoyed a reputation as an aristocrat, partly because its location kept it aloof from the hurly-burly of the international art markets, partly because its purchases were often choice but eccentric, mainly because it was just plain loaded with money. Blessed throughout its existence with a string of benefactors who left it both fine collections and huge bequests, including the $33 million Leonard C. Hanna Jr. legacy, Cleveland now boasts an endowment yielding $1.3 million annually-just $100,000 under that of New York's Metropolitan...
...Line. Hoving was one of Lindsay's first appointments when the new mayor took over the crisis-laden city and announced that he would make over New York into "Fun City." A mixture of madcap aristocrat, merry medievalist and serious scholar, Hoving gave up his job as curator at the Metropolitan Museum's Rockefeller-endowed Cloisters, even though it may have put him out of the line of succession for the post of director...