Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...accusing the Texas governor of "betraying" Americans with his tax plan and proposals to consider raising the retirement age. Then arch-conservative Alan Keyes wrapped his criticism of the Bush tax plan in an out-of-left-field race reference to "Massah Bush." And the picture of an uncaring aristocrat was completed by Senator Orrin Hatch's charge that Dubya's Web site was "not user-friendly." (The Hatch campaign may want to consider rallying the netizenry behind the slogan "No Taxation Without Navigation...
DIED. ALFRED GWYNNE VANDERBILT, 87, horse-racing legend and scion of Commodore Cornelius Vanderbilt; in Mill Neck, N.Y., after returning from his daily visit to the Belmont racetrack. Vanderbilt was the consummate sportsman aristocrat and society high flyer. The owner of the great Thoroughbred Native Dancer, he helped introduce the use of the starting gate and the photo-finish camera...
...just for the elegant touches of the Kennedy presidency--an exhortation at the Berlin Wall, a journey into the hollows of Appalachia--but also for the carefully selected moments of the family at play. John F. Kennedy Jr. was urban royalty with a public conscience, a black-tie aristocrat who took the subway...
...there is a sizeable group of fans of the Earl of Oxford who claim that a country guy from Stratford couldn't possibly have written all that good stuff. Oxford, on the other hand, though he died before the believed publication dates of several of the plays, was an aristocrat supposedly better equipped to write the kind of masterpieces we have today. On the upside, the majority of legitimate Shakespearean scholars (i.e., the ones who have read the actual texts--including Harvard's Marjorie Garber, who writes for Shakespeare being Shakespeare in Harper's) think Shakespeare was probably smart enough...
...characters from classical myth and history. Students also had to be able to expand and embellish on existing literary works, much as Shakespeare did with Henry V and Julius Caesar. People shouldn't be surprised that a commoner should write so knowingly of the nobility. All playwrights wrote about aristocrats. Says Bate: "What is much harder to imagine is an aristocrat like Oxford reproducing the slang of the common tavern or the technicalities of glovemaking...