Word: autocratic
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...portrait of a domestic autocrat, Mr. Nicholas makes grimly impressive reading. Thomas Hinde is not quite the "white hope" of English letters that Novelist Henry (Loving) Green calls him in a jacket blurb, but at 27, after brief careers as a sailor, private tutor and circus hand, Hinde has put together an expert novel. His storytelling is done in meticulously understated style, but beneath its bland surface, Mr. Nicholas is relentless in its exploration of a quiet, homey little English hell...
Templer is the perfect picture of a British regular soldier: an austere, stiff-backed autocrat in uniform-and in mufti a bit of a dandy. He lived elegantly in London's Belgravia and became a connoisseur of claret, crystal and ijth century books. But in the company of his old war comrades he could relax. Says one: "He'll bring along an elderly fellow in civilian attire and introduce him to the officers as 'You remember Sergeant So-and-So. He and I fought together at So-and-So.' Sometimes if you happen to mention...
...papa of the film, played by Charles Boyer, is not the pompous autocrat of Father. He is but a chuckling bystander watching the antics of his clansmen, who are notorious in the community because of their many conquests. There's Uncle Desmond, smoothest operator in Quebec, who collects garters and mounts them on cardboard. He inherited his art from Grandpere, still dapper at 67 years and spryly pursuing his latest widow. What story the film has develops when the adolescent (Bobby Driscoll) imitates the attitude of his uncles and gets in trouble...
...author of The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table, and father of Supreme Court Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes...
...size and merit, it sometimes seemed to do so reluctantly. The years of the late 19th Century were boom years for U.S. higher education, when the U.S. university began not only to mirror but to rival the great universities of Europe. It was in the age of the mighty autocrat, Charles Eliot of Harvard, that American scholarship finally came into...