Word: hauteur
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...Harvard hauteur annoys outsiders, including, perhaps, the present White House, which last March announced that Ronald Reagan would not appear at this week's gala after Harvard made known that the President would not be given an honorary degree. This monumental snub, say critics, came from a university whose sons hold themselves in too high esteem. Secretary of Education William Bennett (J.D., '71) claims he was influenced more by Washington's Gonzaga High and Williams College than by Harvard, and doubts there is a Harvard network or indeed a Harvard point of view. "You will find Harvard...
Hoskins plays this dear wet simp with a rude winsomeness. Tyson (Cicely's niece) finds dignity and pathos in a whore's hauteur. As the gang lord, Michael Caine exudes satiny menace. And Director Neil Jordan (who wrote the + script with David Leland) tells the story from George's point of view while filming it in a style as fancy and knowing as Simone's. No wonder audiences have taken to this gritty romance as to a mongrel puppy; for at heart Mona Lisa is an old-fashioned poor-soul weepie, and George is less a Cagney rakehell than...
...form of sunlight," dying of cancer and turns away from the unbearable. Morrow also reaches forward, sometimes into the incalculable future, through his two sons. The elder goes to school with the Shah of Iran's son, and the author finds the boy "so like his father . . . all hauteur and vulnerabilty delicately balanced. The Shah and his son, my father and I, Jamie and I: I thought about the tenderness and the capacity for violence in the configurations...
...intellectuals. But since he assumed power, Deng has published his belief that "every Chinese knows that without Chairman Mao there would be no new China." At the same time, he has not restrained the official press from indicting the shaping hand of Chinese Communism for "subjectivity, one-sidedness, hauteur and lack of humility." Most cunning of all, Deng has stretched the procrustean bed of Maoism to fit his own needs. By adapting such Maoist phrases as "seeking truth from facts" and "the mass line" to his own purposes, he has given the impression that he has been more faithful...
...that, doubtless, is how Sir John-he was knighted in 1953-is perceived by most people around the world: bright blue eyes looking condescendingly down a luxuriant nose at the unruly, almost always inelegant world around him. "I have a natural kind of hauteur and arrogance," he admits, "but actually I'm very shy and humble." On this warm summer day, sitting over lunch at the Ivy, an old theatrical restaurant in London's West End, he is none of those things, however. He is instead the Gielgud his friends say they see, the irrepressible Mr. Chat, full...