Word: establishmentarian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...distrust he successfully communicated to his ten children, not one of whom ever deviated from the conservative faith of the father or from his staunch Roman Catholicism. "Perhaps the reason we did not rebel," thinks Buckley, "is that Father was a dissenter all his life. Had he been an establishmentarian, there might have been a greater impulse to rebel." In the influence that he exercised over his brood, until his death in 1958 at 77, Buckley Sr. bore considerable resemblance to that other patriarch of Irish descent, Joseph P. Kennedy. But beyond the Irishness, the Buckleys...
With such anti-Establishmentarian overtones, it could almost have been an international congress of anarchists. It was merely part of the week-long "Destruction in Art Symposium," a festival of happenings being staged across Lon don by 40-odd (some very odd) artists from ten countries. The symposium was dedicated to the sobering proposition that "society will ignore the manifestation of destruction in art at its peril...
...totally dehumanized. Leamas is believable; Leiser is not. The book's tension depends not so much on Leiser's spying mission to East Germany as on the efforts of a scorned and inferior arm of British intelligence ("the Department") to haul itself back into the Establishmentarian swim on Leiser's shoulders. With a typically British mixture of ineptness and guile, the seven men who still operate the Department in the drab house on Blackfriars' Road, jostle for position, portentously con "the Minister" for a bigger budget, extra limousines, higher status. And on Cambridge Circus, another...
...sense of outrage does remain. Profumo, for example, would not dare to enter one of the St. James clubs, or to appear at the Goodwood races (he fled to Scotland and his sister's place during the recent bank holiday). Lord Astor continues to entertain, but, says one Establishmentarian, "people resent him for mixing his family and his circle with his peccadilloes...
...human such motives can be is suggested with delightfully doddering comic precision by Edward Atienza as an ancient Senior Fellow who believes that he is being bypassed on suspicion of senility. The retrial exonerates Howard, but the terms of reinstatement outrage the implacably" anti-Establishmentarian Laura (Howard rather implausibly leaves his wife at this point), and the fact of reinstatement disgusts the right-wing bursar, who abominates "such men." To C.P. Snow, both characters symbolize the extremists of the world who keep the men of good will from achieving global harmony...