Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...press, then learns from a sneering member of the opposition that his own father protected his fortune by silencing newspapers that opposed him. Sickened by the revelation, he nevertheless challenges his opponent to a duel, which is to take place at the estate of Ana's father, an aristocrat who reveres honor and gloats over death. On the night before the duel, Aguirre, overcome by his sudden knowledge of meaninglessness, seduces Ana. She longs for him to die, but he kills his man. And so Ana and the politician are bound together. Director Nilsson has tried, with considerable success...
...poor boy from California got into politics almost by accident, and the suave aristocrat from Boston absorbed his political heritage with mother's milk. Yet, despite their differences, the two 1960 Republican nominees have an uncommon lot in common, and on the G.O.P.'s presidential medallion their two profiles fit the times and the issues with minted precision...
...Premier Huh Chung the leading candidate. But under the new constitution, the Premier will be the real power. Public choice is still Chang, 60, a U.S.-educated lawyer and a Roman Catholic. But he is being challenged within his own party by Yoon Bo Sun, 62, an oldtime Korean aristocrat trained in geology and archaeology at Edinburgh University, who feels Chang is a Johnny-come-lately in the Democratic Party...
...questions Diem's courage, his personal honesty or his great achievements. But he is an aristocrat by birth, has no real contact with ordinary citizens or confidence in their judgments. Since an assassination attempt three years ago, Diem is constantly surrounded by police; he has neither the desire nor the ability to be a folksy man of the people. The peasants, who blame the government for a one-third fall in the price of rice this year, view Diem as a remote and austere figure, while they must contend with nightly raids by Red terrorists. To the city intellectuals...
Saint-Exupery, by Marcel Migeo. In a too-worshipful biography, the reader meets the aristocrat, daredevil pilot and eloquent writer who was probably the century's first true poet...