Word: hauteur
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Lynn Milgrim (Clytemnestra), on the other hand, did not perfect nearly so interesting a pose and had to settle for a mask of hauteur. The chorus was innocuous, which is something, and the play is short...
Denobilization. The grey-haired, blue-eyed earl has none of the hauteur of many English noblemen, and he has a pugnacious streak that his fragile air belies. In the Cabinet and the country at large, Home's blunt, hardheaded performance as Foreign Secretary has won him a degree of respect accorded to only one of his postwar predecessors, Labor's late Ernie Bevin. Remembering Churchill's innocence of economics and social problems, many politicians believed that Home-Sweet-Home, as Winston called him, could easily fill the same gaps in his experience...
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...