Word: hauteur
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...themselves--cultured, upper-crust, white. Aldrich neglects to name the brand of intuition he favors, but his rhetoric reveals his predilections. Discussing student opposition to master's choice, he writes, "The merest suspicion of discriminate assembly by students and housemasters raised the specter of an old Harvard of snobbish hauteur, the specter (oh, how hated!) of social class." The university spirit Aldrich wants ("a quality of self-confidence now always condemned as arrogance"), he finds in John Maynard Keynes's description of pre-World War I Cambridge University...
...hauteur and old-fashioned eyepiece belong to Actress Faye Dunaway, 35, now at work on a new picture titled Voyage. Based on the true story of Jewish refugees who set sail for Cuba back in 1939, the movie features Dunaway as the starchy wife of a university professor, played by Austrian Actor Oskar Werner. The filming, some of which took place off the coast of Barcelona, caused some seasickness problems among the moviemakers, but Dunaway seemed to have had more worries about costuming than mal de mer. "My problem," she says simply, "was in trying to keep the monocle clamped...
...playwright benefited the Committee for Public Justice, a civil liberties organization she founded in 1970. Noting that friends she had not seen in 20 years had called up asking for tickets, the author of The Little Foxes and The Children's Hour greeted the occasion with typical hauteur. "I'm appalled," she laughed. "Appalled that anyone would think I'm handling the tickets...
...year after his triumph he left ABT with extravagant bluster. Said he: "They wouldn't make me director of the company, they wouldn't give me the whole company to do with what I like." That outburst was enough to make critics write off Feld with a hauteur that resembled his own. Unrepentant, he set up shop as the American Ballet Company, but ran out of money within two years. He had just about decided to give up choreography when the Rockefeller Foundation offered to be his angel. New York Shakespeare Festival Director Joseph Papp volunteered free space...
...purports to disclose that the lady Olivia, whom he serves as a kind of steward, is desperately in love with him. Bedford purses his lips as if his mouth were pickled in brine. He walks with the gravity of a frozen penguin. His mien alternates between a mask of hauteur and a tickled-pink grin of uncontainable self-adulation. As an actor, he takes the treacherous gamble of playing directly to the audience and makes it pay off in total delight...