Word: aristocratism
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...rather stuffy British bank manager with the usual accouterments: conservative suit, sensible umbrella, requisite black bowler. Britt (Ursula Andress) has more than the usual accouterments, and she uses them to keep herself in creature comforts like sports cars and chic clothes. Her husband Nick (David Warner) is a jaded aristocrat who lives almost entirely on credit and his finely chiseled profile. He needs Britt, worldly goods and a lot of money, which gives him something in common with Graham, who has a foolproof plan to rob his bank and get all three. Graham enlists Nick's aid, and Britt...
...Ephriam, George, Nathanial and our Thomas. They were not simply being "Puritanical" and self-righteous in their attacks against the scoundrel of Merry Mount. Perhaps one reason for their contempt of him was that he was not related to our "saintly" family. That he was well educated and an aristocrat may also have had some bearing on the fact that, with Governor Bradford, they drove him from the colony. Furthermore, trading booze with the Indians made him a total menace to the Pilgrims, who were heavy drinkers...
...function. This led to what the Herman Miller Company catalogue called "America's most famous modern chair" -two doubly curved molded plywood components, one for the seat and the other for the back, which were connected with rubber shock mounts to the plywood and bent steel rod legs. The aristocrat of the Eames family is the black, leather-up-holstered lounge chair, but what became every man's chair was Eames' molded fiberglass stacking chair...
...their sophistication, Swedes seem to prefer politicians with a down-home touch. Tage Erlander, a big, shambling, avuncular sort, who retired as Prime Minister in 1969 after 23 years on the job, was perfectly typecast. But Erlander's hand-picked successor-Olof Palme, 43, a sophisticated aristocrat-was a far cry from that grass-roots stereotype. "Palme doesn't even look like a Swede," says one of his friends. "He's not tall, not blond. He's smart and he shows it. Will this go down with the Swedes? Will they take this international character...
...years ago. But the University Gazette takeoff is marvelous; it captures that publication's "optimistic and resolute" hear-no-evil-see-no-evil-speak-no-evil tone as the world collapses around it. An imaginative Harvard Register parody attempts to portray the Dean of Freshmen as an old-fashioned aristocrat. Their Courses of Instruction is weak, not even as funny as the real thing. (Did anyone catch German 276, "Eroticism in Jugendstil Literature," described as: "Erotic motifs central to the Jugenstil period [together with death, water, and plant themes]. The ambivalent attitude of writers toward society...