Word: aristocratism
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...complained Louis Philippe, Duke of Orléans and a future King of France (1830-48), after a four-month swing through the U.S. in 1797. Four years earlier, the young aristocrat, whose father was guillotined by revolutionists, had begun a 21-year exile, spent mostly in Europe. Then 23 years old, the duke filled two notebooks as he explored the exotic New World, writing of "very pretty" and "coquettish" Cherokee women, "gross, lazy and inhospitable" whites in Tennessee, and George Washington's "most exquisite politeness" during a dinner at Mount Vernon. The journal has just been published...
While Glover and Anderson steal some scenes, James Valentine as "Gentlemanly Johnny" Burgoyne steals the show. The part of Burgoyne--a supercilious aristocrat straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan--is an ideal comic showcase, and Valentine makes the most of it, eliciting a laugh a line. Mugging outrageously and delivering his lines with superb timing, Valentine etches a sharp portrait of a British general with the humanity to rejoice in a defeat that prevents murder...
...legislatures. From Turin, for instance, comes Count Luigi Rossi di Montelra, Christian Democrat Deputy and vermouth empire executive (Martini & Rossi), who was kidnaped three years ago; the Count won public accolades for the exemplary stoicism he displayed during the 120-day ordeal. A Rome constituency elected Fiat Industrial Aristocrat Umberto Agnelli to the Senate as a Christian Democrat, while the small Republican Party successfully fielded his sister Susanna Agnelli, a first-time Deputy who is also mayor of Porto Santo Stefano, a fashionable resort town on the Tuscan coast...
...House of Commons, the Whig opposition is led by Edmund Burke, 47, an Irishman who has become America's most eloquent defender, and Charles James Fox, 27, a witty, rakish aristocrat who is serious about only one thing, politics. In the House of Lords, the Whig leader is the Marquis of Rockingham, who is given credit for decency and honesty but is not an effective politician. In both houses, the opposition can count on about one-third of the vote. Its speakers have opposed the King's policy almost every day during the debates of the last session...
...paggio) and summons up what seems impossible but makes the character human: the memory of Falstaff as a child. He is no opera buffoon, but a laughing knight whether on top of the world or crushed by it. As Ponelle says: "Don't forget that Falstaff is an aristocrat...