Word: aristocratic
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...missed. But neither should its second premise be taken seriously: the idea that there was some causal connection between the advent of the classical style in sculpture and that of democracy in Athenian politics. Both happened at roughly the same time: in the late 6th century an Athenian aristocrat, Kleisthenes, made an alliance with the people of Athens in order to defeat another noble, Isagoras, and pushed through a number of democratic reforms that were permanently enshrined in the Athenian constitution...
...tradition, the fiancee of the crown princemust be an aristocrat, no more than 25 years oldand has never had a previous romanticrelationship...
There is also human nature, which, as Cooper's tales present it, is a sorry thing. Sophistication doesn't improve it: the bloodiest deed in the Leatherstocking tales, a frontier My Lai, is the responsibility of a French aristocrat. Nor does the simple life guarantee innocence. Cooper's blackest villain is an Indian, his second blackest a hermit trapper who hunts scalps for bounty. The scene in which the trapper, scalped himself and dying, fears he may go to hell, is one of the most powerful Cooper ever wrote, and it owes its power to ethical earnestness as much...
...remote, absentee father who viewed his offspring with suspicion and alarm. "My children weary me," he once confided to his diary. "I can only see them as defective adults: feckless, destructive, frivolous, sensual, humorless." Perhaps in reaction to his frugal middle-class upbringing, he became an aristocrat-toadying snob who tended to confuse proper breeding with moral worth...
There is no evidence that the princess or her intimates had anything to do with the other biographies. For admirers of Prince Charles, Campbell's is the choice. Her sources are something of a mystery, but the citations are unintentionally hilarious: "an aristocrat whose brother-in-law is a senior courtier," "a titled schoolmate of Diana's," "a famous socialite." Davies' is the most balanced account but also the vaguest. The books read as if written in haste, and they contain many discrepancies...