Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...uneventful lives of the Tarletons, a middle class family grown rich in the underwear business, whose restless daughter is engaged to a puny, spoiled aristocrat, are enlivened in Shavian fashion by the unexpected injection of foreign elements. A handsome young man and a Polish lady acrobat drop in quite literally by crashing their aeroplane into the family greenhouse. And a timid would-be gunman secrets himself in the portable Turkish bath in order to avenge his mother's honor by attacking Mr. Tarleton. The volatile Pole, Lina Szczepanowska, puts her finger on how little takes place in this English family...
...that] seemed to join his capacity to focus on the infinite meaning in finite things?a trait which is often associated with the attribution of sainthood." The rule that great leaders are summoned forth by great issues can be persuasively argued from, say, the Churchillian example?a brilliant, irascible aristocrat who was settling into a relatively unsuccessful old age when the war called him forth to embody a people's grand defiance...
Giscard evidently hopes that a less-stiff presidential style will soften his image as a remote aristocrat living in a world of economics dossiers. Above all, a "more relaxed" presidency, Giscard feels, could help reduce the social tensions of a polarized nation...
...IMAGE AS AN ALOOF ARISTOCRAT. Franklin D. Roosevelt was a patrician, and Kennedy was a multimillionaire. In the U.S., they represented an idea of progress, and both-Roosevelt especially-led a major reform movement, so one should not be taken in by labels that politicians give one another. Anyone who follows my campaign will see that I have no difficulty in obtaining popular support. In France, people know very well whether you are self-seeking or not, and as they have been observing me for some time, they know that this is not the case with...
...choice seems odd. As a beautiful woman, an aristocrat, a romantic and a Roman Catholic, Mary was a congenial subject for the author, who is all those things herself. Cromwell was certainly not beautiful, had no record of romantic interest, and was a scourge of Catholics and a regicide. Why Cromwell? Says Fraser: "I guess I wanted to prove I was more than just a pretty brain." There is no doubt she proves it. Her Cromwell is vast and conscientious. She has read every biography, pored through every broadside of the times, considered every malicious rumor, and records them...