Word: aristocratism
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Mary's parents were firmly upper-class. In Venice they forced her to put on white gloves, to act the role of the young aristocrat, and to speak Italian instead of her German dialect. Life with the indulgent poet and the aloof, implacable violinist was made out of what her village parents would consider frivolity. In the village farmhouse there had been only two books: The Life of Christ and The Lives of the Saints. At the center of Pound's villa library in Venice, among all the books in all the many languages, there was huge, wood-bound Ovid...
...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...
...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...