Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...took an innocent soul," he explained, "yet one already touched with the terrible possibility of corruption." This is the young Arkady, illegitimate son of an aristocrat named Versilov, reared in loneliness in a series of boarding schools, and fiercely aware of his bastardy. He is struggling for an "idea" to which he can devote his life. But first he must come to an understanding with the father he hardly knows, and this father, Versilov, has already passed beyond all "ideas" into a kind of religion of despair. The son is what many of us once were: passionate, deluded, selfish, idealistic...
...rich have fled from Peru than from Chile, in part because they recognize that the junta, which has not used violent tactics, is engineering what might be termed a "preventive revolution" rather than a complete upheaval. "With the junta, I lose half of my fortune," explains an aristocrat. "With a more radical revolution, I might lose my entire fortune and my neck as well...
Madhouse Notes The drowning of a young couple in Women in Love and the Swiss idyll corrupted by an epicene aristocrat. The aborted honeymoon in the swaying railway car in The Music Lovers and Nina Ivanovna's dementia. With each new film. Ken Russell has become increasingly obsessed with madness-which is dangerously like a kind of madness in itself. Now, in The Devils, he has made a delirious fresco about the insanity of the witch hunts in 17th century France. It is a movie so unsparingly vivid in its imagery, so totally successful in conveying an atmosphere...
...different kinds of young women.... Radcliffe needs all kinds of people." What did the girl in the grey flannel suit imagine in high school? When you read the pamphlet, what did you see? A pianist, a Merit Scholar or two, a Shakespeare expert? A poet, a biochemist, an aristocrat? Cultured young women, taking tea with the Galbraiths? Hornrimmed girls in dirty trenchcoats dotting the steps of Widener Library? The chocolate, peach and lime the CRIMSON warned of? Or Playboy's poll: "Cliffies are Merit Scholars who are good in bed" (thank God! the best of both worlds!). How could...
...exercise, shouting the lyrics to "Rockabye Baby"? How could we know that the Shakespeare expert would sneak around the dorm at night stealing food from everybody's rooms? That the poet, our roommate, would never get out of bed? That the biochemist, three doors down, never slept? That the aristocrat would run away, leaving behind only her collection of bottlecans? How could we Know...