Word: aristocratism
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...FERNANDO BERCKEMEYER. American-born Claribel Berckemeyer, the stately, attractive wife of Peru's ambassador, offers French cuisine, fine wines and lively parties at a palatial embassy set on 25 wooded acres in Chevy Chase. She and Fernando, a wealthy aristocrat who went to Notre Dame but speaks with a British accent, often entertain younger members of the New Frontier-the Bobby Kennedys, the Paul Fays-and the guests sometimes form conga lines or twist...
...Smith a mighty man is he. But what is he doing in a modern novel? This is in fact a Gothic novel cropping up after a lapse in taste of a century or so, and Donleavy's Smith is the once familiar Byronic hero, the diabolically fascinating doomed aristocrat...
Maupassant's story sets loose a grim, helpless sadness that deepens and spreads until it dominates the picture. It begins with the marriage of a wealthy aristocrat's daughter to a farmer's son who is trying to get out of debt. The bride is a sentimental ingenue of classical stamp; the groom is a taciturn brute who resembles Melville's Ahab...
...MUSIC ROOM. India's Satyajit Ray (the Apu trilogy) examines the affectingly human decline and fall of a proud, fat, foolish old Bengali aristocrat...
...MUSIC ROOM. A proud old aristocrat loses family and fortune trying to save face, and the resulting film underscores anew the genius of India's Satyajit Ray, creator of the Apu trilogy...