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Enlightened Interns. Mabel Carmon has been variously described as tolerant, courageous, fairminded, flexible, modest, sweet and shy, a machine, a perfectionist, an autocrat. Some staff members would have liked to boot her out the window when they came in as young interns, but they learned to respect her and admire...
Since "Life with Father" was written, the father-figure has become one of the commonest targets in American humor. Frank Gilbreth, the head of the household in "Cheaper by the Dozen" is a typical autocrat--an efficiency expert who started married life with a determination to have twelve children and forthwith realized this goal. Like all his predecessors in the history of household autocracy, Gilbreth's strongest quality is his refusal to be cowed by the social practices of his neighbors. The movie's funniest scenes center around his demands that the women in the family wear bathing suits that...
Adenauer, a staunch democrat in politics, is an autocrat of the breakfast and the dinner table. His son says: "Father leaves democracy at the door. He rules our family with a strong hand. If a rose tree must be transplanted, he decides when and where. If my sister wants to bake a cake, he must say yes or no. This is not unusual in Germany, you know; this is how it should...
Many middle-of-the-road Belgians, unimpressed by Le Peuple's poisonous campaign, nevertheless suspected that Leopold, a man of considerable intelligence and ability, was a natural autocrat who would never be comfortable within the limits of a constitutional monarchy. In 1940, two weeks after the Germans invaded Belgium, he had refused the pleas of the Belgian cabinet to leave the country and form a government-in-exile in London. In 1944, the Nazis took him to Germany; he was liberated there by the Allies and went to Switzerland. The Brussels Parliament installed his brother Charles as Regent...
...years, Holt never altered his methods, nor changed his ways. He was always the amiable autocrat who collected antiques, breakfasted in his four-poster bed (George Washington had slept there), was forever popping into classrooms to see how things were going. Last week, as he said farewell, he delivered an autocrat's final warning: "If the Rollins faculty reverts to the lecture and recitation system with their inevitable grades and examinations, all of which tend to make the professor a detective and the student a bluffer, then you may hear the creaking sound as I turn over...