Word: autocratic
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...price is steep, the prize is nothing short of fabulous. Best of the lot are Brundage's bronzes, dating back 30 centuries to the almost mythical Shang-Yin dynasty in China. Among the finest is the "Holy Man" or Lohan (opposite), whose peaceful humility especially delights the fighting autocrat who bought...
...this glossy French import, the gloomy patriarch of the dynasty (banks, refineries, mines, newspapers) is white-thatched Jean Gabin, a cold-eyed, cunning old autocrat. When men or industries get out of line, Papa Jean straightens everything out with a deft and ruthless hand. He arranges a wedding between an innocent man and his own ward when she gets pregnant by a Gabin employee. He bribes a high government official on behalf of a military relative. With high handed dispatch, he breaks up an affair between his luxury-loving cousin and a fifth-rate actress. Only when he gambles with...
...vivant who likes to have the towers of Monrovia's Saturday Afternoon Club specially illuminated whenever he drops in at night. He runs his Ohio-sized country with the benign shrewdness of an oldtime U.S. city boss and a good many of the trappings of an African autocrat. If Liberia is still one of the most backward countries in Africa, its pace of advance is now among the fastest...
...summer place on Long Island, a Florida hideaway, the caretaker's cottage at the Arden estate (he gave the big house to Columbia University, which uses it for special conferences). Beneath his placid, patrician bearing, he flexes long-toughened sinews of a first-rate, determined administrator and an autocrat of the timetable, is a stickler for details ("Honest Ave, the Hairsplitter"). He badgers aides at all hours, once sent state police searching for a commissioner who had failed to check out properly. Intense, he can work his staff to exhaustion, still feel fit himself, takes pride in making fast...
...document does not endanger democracy in France. De Gaulle himself, who is likely to be the first President of the new Republic, is neither a demagogue nor an autocrat. The institution of the Republic, in spite of what many critics of the Constitution declare, can hardly serve as a springboard for dictatorship. The emergency powers are described so minutely that they cannot really be used except in situations such as the fall of the Third Republic in June, 1940, or like the fall of the Fourth last May--circumstances in which a "national arbiter" might prove indispensable...