Word: highborn
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...failed to see that he had outraged all highborn Romans, who did not necessarily disapprove of homosexuality, but felt that Caesar had prostituted himself...
...Delhi Eastern Economist found just how topsyturvy student social life has become. As a result of a growing movement against them, 55% of the Brahmans questioned said they now feel discriminated against, while only a third of the lower castes felt the same. Most common complaint among the highborn: "The untouchables, they persecute...
LEOPARDS AND LILIES, by Alfred Duggan (278 pp.; Coward-McCann; $3.50), finds a veteran historical novelist taking the field for the English against France in the time of bad King John. Lady Margaret fitzGerold, a highborn widow, is forced into an unwelcome marriage with Sir Falkes de Brealte, a Norman bastard and the best crossbowman in all England. Margaret, a practical woman of 14, runs Falkes's castle, appreciates his long absences from home, and is only mildly annoyed when he scolds her for lowering the drawbridge too slowly. Lady Margaret survives the harrowing siege of Bedford...
...Japanese say that in the finest tea one can taste the water with which it was made. Lady of Beauty is just such a subtle cup of literary tea. In it, Kikou Yamata, daughter of a Japanese diplomat and a French mother, tells the story of Nobuko Hayashi, aloof, highborn and exquisite, and how the war racked and finally killed her without using a bullet or a bomb. At once surface and symbol, Lady of Beauty is a quiet requiem for a culture as well as a person, by a mourner who remains charmingly alive...
...chronicle of three characters in search of a parent, its use of knowledgeable servants and titled sinners, its display of highborn eccentricity, its going in for shameless interruptions at climactic moments, The Confidential Clerk is the glaringly legitimate offspring of Gilbert & Sullivan and Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest. Its tone, moreover, is often as artificial as its plot is absurd. But plainly, Eliot's bantering is only skin-deep; plainly his "Who am I?" is no mere parlor game, but a cry from the heart; and his reshufflings of parentage involve revelations about life. Beneath...