Word: hauteur
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...Cost of Anger. Soriano's modernity has its limits. Many of his employee benefits seem at least partly designed to keep his workers out of unions-which are anathema to Soriano. And his aristocratic hauteur has provoked resentments that are slow to die. A Spanish citizen by birth, Soriano supported the Franco regime in the 1930s, and when he became a Philippine citizen in 1941 was denounced by some Filipinos as a Fascist advance man. The charge cut so deeply that in 1945 Soriano angrily switched to U.S. citizenship-to which he was entitled because of his World...
...Whyatt as the "Fleshly Poet"--a dig at Wilde--is the very essence of Oscar; mincing his way delicately across the stage, he inevitably gets a laugh every time he opens his quietly disdainful mouth. Whyatt is upstaged only by his Buttercupesque admirer, the Lady Jane, played with waspish hauteur by Dorothea Schmidt (she is particularly magnificent at the opening of the Second Act, when she is discovered in a glade singing a plaintive lay, and accompanying herself on a double bass). Her singing voice I can only describe as a magnificent and artfully manipulated foghorn...
...this juncture even fewer courageous souls, still including me, respectfully suggest a double feature at the U.T., evoking either scalding hauteur or tears from our dates. "How," they hiss, "can you ignore the excellent movies, some in English, which are now spellbinding the Boston cognoscenti? Do you expect me to tell the girls in the dorm that I went to the U.T.? And saw a double feature...
Joan Diener in the title role is tall, white-blonde, gorgeous, and unquestionably a mammal; she can launch my ships anytime. But she has been constrained (by the script, perhaps, or by Mr. Marre, or by her own predilections) to play Helen with an icy hauteur that eliminates the possibility of any emotional response from the audience except pure lust. Perhaps it is too much to ask, but it would be nice to have a Helen who is likable as well as desirable. On her own terms, however, Miss Diener acts quite well enough, and her singing is not unpleasant...
Like two boxers eying each other across the ring, France's Charles de Gaulle and Algerian rebel "Premier" Ferhat Abbas last week sat waiting for the next diplomatic round. Silent hauteur was Paris' first response to the counterproposals with which Abbas and his "Cabinet" had met De Gaulle's offer of Algerian self-determination (TIME, Sept. 28). The rebels were still insisting that if France wanted a cease-fire in the five-year-old Algerian civil war, it must deal directly with their "provisional government." but this De Gaulle had barred from the beginning. Equally unacceptable...