Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...little (5 ft. 5 in.) whippet of a man, with the manners of a Southern aristocrat and the look of a riverboat gambler. He never finished college, hated literary talk ("I'm not a literary man, I'm a retired farmer"), often spoke like a country yokel (spattering his conversation with ain'ts and double negatives), and drank like a desperate man. Above all, he was-like his forefathers before him-a Mississippian...
...identity as a man because he could never forget his identity as a Negro. His sister Ida battles the white world too, but ends by yielding to the love of her brother's best friend, an Irish-Italian from Brooklyn named Vivaldo Moore. Blonde Clarissa Silenski, a Boston aristocrat (Puritan uprightness. Puritan guilt), is disappointed in the second-rate values of her husband Richard, a teacher and writer of Polish immigrant stock. Actor Eric Jones (the American South) has had to quit Alabama for Europe, less because he is a homosexual than because he is fond of Negroes...
...conditioned headquarters next to Manila's presidential palace, a portly aristocrat in an immaculate white suit caught up with the business at hand. With imperious dispatch, Don Andres Soriano, 64, decided on the gift boxes that his companies will use next Christmas, studied the experimental strains of barley that he hopes to grow in the Mindanao highlands, and okayed production schedules for a new instant-coffee plant near Manila. That done, he got set to fly to New York to complete negotiations with International Paper Co. for construction of a jointly owned wood pulp and paper mill-the first...
Relics of Feudalism. Hughes begins his history of the time of troubles as history itself begins-in apparent inconsequence. Hughes does not endow his characters with his own hindsight but sets them moving blindly into orbit. Augustine Penry-Herbert is the protagonist. In 1923, he is a young aristocrat, just out of Oxford, who spends his time shooting geese and snipe on the wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks...
...reader, told that this is supposed to be a history of the times, is baffled, but finding himself reading about a lonely aristocrat living in a remote Welsh backwater, through an art that is little short of magical, he slowly comes to understand and accept Augustine, with his pacifist, anarchist rationalism, as a type-figure of his English class and generation...