Word: bluebloods
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...running with Thomas P. O'Neill III, 34, who was seeking the lieutenant governorship and who happens to be the son of Tip O'Neill, Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives. With the Speaker's help and with heavy support from blue-collar voters, King beat Republican blueblood Francis W. Hatch Jr., by more than 100,000 votes...
...world-weariness on his sleeve while gallantly enacting some ritual of self-sacrifice, preferably a futile one. The Legionnaires are a carefully assorted lot, the exotic equivalent of the cross sections found in bomber crews in World War II movies-a soulful French muscian, a what-ho English blueblood, a hulking Russian who once guarded the Czar's family, and so on. Hackman and the chieftain of the hostile desert tribes (Ian Holm) are, naturally, old and respectful friends, although somehow Scriptwriter David Zelag Goodman neglected to make them former college roommates...
...knees to play with the kids. Sasser frequently twits his dignified opponent by referring to him grandly as "William E. Brock the Third" and "the candy man from Lookout Mountain" to underscore Brock's wealth as heir to a candy fortune and his place of residence: the posh blueblood area of Chattanooga. Bill Brock may wince at such mischief, but the ploy is hardly sufficient in itself to frustrate the conservative's bid for a second term. However, a looming Carter landslide in the state and Sasser's tireless and folksy campaign are genuinely formidable obstacles...
...most obvious fact about the select few is that most are over 50 (in fact, six on the list are dead). In the top groups, only 41-year-old Susan Sontag can be considered new blueblood, and she made her debut with an essay on camp more than a decade ago. Kadushin found that in general the people interviewed were "systematically ignorant" of up-and-coming young intellectuals. Brilliant youthful Catholic writers like Gary Wills (Nixon Agonistes, The Bare Ruined Choir) and important new journals like Theodore Solatoroff's American Review do not appear to be taken with sufficient...
Died. The Marquess of Salisbury, 78, the Tory blueblood whose high-pitched stammer echoed through British Parliament for more than four decades; of fibrosis of the lung; in Hertfordshire, England. Salisbury belonged to a family of politicians whose influence dated back 400 years to Elizabethan times. A man of rigid principle, he resigned from government in 1938 to protest his party's appeasement of Mussolini. He was later called back to office by Winston Churchill, became leader of the House of Lords, and in 1957 played a pivotal role in the selection of, Harold Macmillan as Prime Minister...