Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frazier's hauteur is not confined to Boston Common. During a visit to New York last week, he found the new Americana Hotel "more awful than anyone can imagine," and densely inhabited by ''all the brassy blondes whom you seem to remember from Miami, all the sharp-featured characters in their wrap-around polo coats." Turning away disdainfully, he trained his eye on the city's newspaper strike, found an unexplored facet: the special travail of Manhattan's paper-trained dogs. "It strikes you as so strange." Frazier wrote, "to hear one woman complain...
...Mauriac wrote with greater insight: "He appears as though delegated by historic France to living France, in order that it should remember what a great nation it has been." In fact, De Gaulle has had a lifelong conviction that his mission is to lead France to new greatness. Hauteur and intransigence have always been weapons in that fight. For much of his life, he has been either a prophet without honor in his own country or, in wartime London and Washington, a soldier armed only with honor. When his country was helpless, he repeatedly forced the world to take...
...Seven Days in May. They are all engaged in a plot to overthrow the President because he has negotiated a disarmament treaty with Russia. Chief conspirator is the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, General James Scott, who combines Eisenhower's charm with MacArthur's hauteur. Knebel-Bailey save the country from the conspirators, but they might as well have let the military take over, considering that the political savvy of their top politicos is somewhere below the ward heeler level. The Vice President, for instance, talks like a Greenwich Village grocer. "You want Ivy League manners...
...Cost of Anger. Soriano's modernity has its limits. Many of his employee benefits seem at least partly designed to keep his workers out of unions-which are anathema to Soriano. And his aristocratic hauteur has provoked resentments that are slow to die. A Spanish citizen by birth, Soriano supported the Franco regime in the 1930s, and when he became a Philippine citizen in 1941 was denounced by some Filipinos as a Fascist advance man. The charge cut so deeply that in 1945 Soriano angrily switched to U.S. citizenship-to which he was entitled because of his World...
...Whyatt as the "Fleshly Poet"--a dig at Wilde--is the very essence of Oscar; mincing his way delicately across the stage, he inevitably gets a laugh every time he opens his quietly disdainful mouth. Whyatt is upstaged only by his Buttercupesque admirer, the Lady Jane, played with waspish hauteur by Dorothea Schmidt (she is particularly magnificent at the opening of the Second Act, when she is discovered in a glade singing a plaintive lay, and accompanying herself on a double bass). Her singing voice I can only describe as a magnificent and artfully manipulated foghorn...