Word: hauteur
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...must have a sense of place and a feeling all its own, and its citizens must be different from and more vital than those who live elsewhere. The difference does not even have to be in their favor. The native Parisian, for instance, is born with an ineradicable hauteur that others define as rudeness, and the native New Yorker knows the meaning of avarice before he can spell the word. So strong is the trait that a century ago, Anthony Trollope waspishly noted that every New Yorker "worships the dollar and is down before his shrine from morning to night...
...effet, partout dans ce recueil on voit l'effort des etudiants s'allier au passe: invocation de dates revolutionaires citations de St. Just, Babeuf, Bakounine, appel a un role historique ("Deculottez vos phrases pour etre a la hauteur des sans culottes.") Vue apres l'echec humiliante des elections, cette solidarite avec l'histoire est ironique et inquietante...
Bumps & Grinds. Although dated for today's audience-which Balanchine helped educate-Slaughter was a pioneer work that put ballet on Broadway permanently. With high-fidelity hauteur, Suzanne Farrell stormed tantalizingly through the bumps and grinds of the striptease girl, ably partnered by Arthur Mitchell as her jealous hoofer boy friend. The dance was all show-biz flash, far removed from the cool twelve-tone Balanchine ballets in which Farrell has frequently starred...
Bobby himself notes with wry pride: "I am the only candidate opposed by both big business and big labor." Many foreign diplomats, especially Asians, fear that he might lead the U.S. back to isolationism. Orthodox politicians often cannot forgive his hauteur, and recoil at what seems to be his rule-or-ruin approach. He is unpredictable, uncontrollable. Would he attack agricultural subsidies? Farm groups wonder. How far beyond Medicare would he go in expanding Government medical services? Organized medicine worries. He speaks for tax reform and attacks the oil-depletion allowance, as others have for years, but Bobby might just...
When Jacqueline Kennedy comes to Cambridge, the last vestige of magisterial hauteur disappears. "He fawns over her like a cocker spaniel," harrumphs a neighbor. "He bounds out onto the lawn wreathed in smiles, escorts her into the house as though she were made of eggs, and hovers...