Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...house whose staircase was split into two curves, he stood for 20 minutes at the bottom trying to find a logical reason for ascending by one side or the other. In France, it was a time when the Comte de La Rochefoucauld could still remark seriously of another aristocrat that his family were "mere nobodies in the year...
Strausz-Hupé came to the U.S. as a tutor-guardian to a no-good Salzburg aristocrat who was older than himself, worked in the art department of Marshall Field's in Chicago (landscapes and jolly monks), as a runner in Wall Street (with social weekends on Long Island), finally as a customer's man and-after a return to Europe-as an investment banker. This could have been a simple immigrant's success story. But Strausz-Hupé, however frivolous his youth, had retained the gravitas of a European education. He met Historian Oswald Spengler only...
...Party, has shrewdly helped quiet the pro-Eire agitation by doing earlier this year what no other Ulster P.M. ever dared do: he invited Ireland's Premier Sean Lemass for lunch in Belfast. Many of O'Neill's supporters were outraged, but the dapper, six-foot aristocrat blithely ignored his Orangemen's indignation. "I hoped to establish more normal relations with our southern neighbors," he said coolly. "Since we share the same island, this is surely sensible...
Slender Successor. As Abdullah wished, the Council of Ministers quickly proclaimed his brother, Premier Sabah as Salem as Sabah, 51, as Kuwait's new Emir. Like his brother, Sabah is a kind and conservative aristocrat, and a devoutly religious nondrinker. The resemblance ends there. Abdullah was tall and portly, and had a commanding, fatherly presence. Sabah is short (5 ft. 5 in.), slender, and a good deal less commanding. "Sabah is quietly weak." said one Kuwaiti official, "while Abdullah was quietly strong...
Though colonels and captains crowd the King's payroll, his prized possession is R.A.F. Flight Lieut. Marlowe, played with smashing impact by James Fox (the corrupted young aristocrat of The Servant). Marlowe becomes an apostle of King's anything-for-a-buck philosophy because it works miracles for him, tested as it is under circumstances in which his family's long heritage...