Word: hauteur
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William Howard Russell, one of the first war correspondents, wrote of the British hauteur in the Crimea: "Am I to tell these things or hold my tongue?" He asked the question of the trade. Today one normally expects that journalists will not hold their tongues, perhaps because Russell and others did not, or perhaps because it is common now to regard war as inglorious, even purposeless. In a sense, journalists always have been the enemies of war. From a tactical viewpoint, one almost might say it lies in the interests of the participants to kill them off, since inevitably they...
Shock. Amazement. And a nice side order of hauteur. Disorientation at first: Where's the runway? How about the front-row seat? No music? No lights? And ... no ... models...
...conductor for life" of the fabled Berlin Philharmonic, Herbert von Karajan, 74, long ago grew accustomed to governing his orchestra with an autocratic hauteur that was seldom challenged. So the conductor expected no back-chair back talk when he named Sabine Meyer, 23, as the new solo clarinetist, and only the second female member in the philharmonic's 100-year history. But an overwhelming majority of the 118-member orchestra voted to oppose Von Karajan's protégée as "unsuitable" because of her alleged weakness as an ensemble performer. Outraged, the conductor coolly informed...
Indeed, the main reason such doubt exists at all these days is that the two nations have exchanged places in the hierarchy of world power since World War II, and Britain has replaced the bemused hauteur with which it peered across the Atlantic in the 19th and early 20th centuries with a current admixture of dread and regret. What many Englishmen said after the war (and still say, to some degree) is that savage, sprawling America was amusing enough when it was a bulky, sleeping animal, but now that it has grown to a global monster, civilization will...
...author tries to like his old boss, but phrases like "royal hauteur," "the armor of arrogance" and "unreflective activist" keep popping up. He admires the gubernatorial record, but is disturbed by what he feels was Rockefeller's emotional freeze after ordering the grisly assault on rebellious prisoners at Attica. Behind the image of a liberal Republican was an old-fashioned cold-warrior and bare-taloned hawk, who dismissed all Viet Nam draft resisters with the remark, "Those guys just didn't want to get killed...