Word: aristocratism
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WHAT A DREAM CAST: ROGER REES IN HIS first New York theater role since he won the Tony for Nicholas Nickleby, as a British aristocrat turned Southern California hustler; TV stars Nancy Marchand of Lou Grant, double-cast as his London mother and his Los Angeles boss, and Jean Smart of Designing Women, as both of his abused wives. What a pity that promising playwright Jon Robin Baitz, 30, who in THE END OF THE DAY parallels Old World and New World corruption from charity medical wards to drug dealing to corporate raiding, can't stitch together a coherent narrative...
...machines were turningout 50 million pairs of shoes a year. McKay becamerich and gave Harvard four million dollars, whichendowed not just one or two professorships, but anentire department--the Division of AppliedScience. Shoe technology has not changed muchsince McKay's time. McKay would recognize theLandis Aristocrat sewing machine that stands inFelix's workspace...
...response to the U.S. message, Cedras promptly promoted several soldiers in a move the Bush administration represented as "disciplining." Not disciplining the army, though, but the people--several of these men were involved in Baby Doc's regime. A triumphant Haitian aristocrat announced in appropriately obscure language: "We are heading in the direction of absorbing this crisis." He is right...
...WHEN Franklin Delano Roosevelt won in 1932, he wasn't messing around with this businesslike two-name stuff. His fifth cousin/uncle-in-law Teddy had called himself TR, and the new Roosevelt thought that would be cool. But FR sounded a lot like "afar" or "fart," and he was an aristocrat, so he kept the "Delano...
Then came William Henry Harrison in the election of 1840. Harvard Professor of History William Gienapp (that's William E. Gienapp) told me he really doesn't know why Harrison chose to use three names, except that it was considered aristocratic--and Harrison was certainly an aristocrat. His dad signed the Declaration of Independence, and Harrison grew up on swanky Berkeley Plantation on the James...