Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Emerging Personality. In the face of this huffing, the young (33) lord, who in times past has spoken out with equal vigor against such revered national institutions as the Church of England and the House of Lords, held his ground firmly. "I meant every word, and I have no regrets," he told reporters. "Our monarchy is the kind that can be talked about like that, but if it becomes a sort of religious establishment that people cannot discuss, it will collapse...
...those who took the trouble to look beyond the headlines into the body of Lord Altrincham's article, the point was clear enough and one that has troubled the thoughts of many another Briton now recovered from the first, fine rapture of enjoying a pretty, well-mannered new Queen: What and where are a monarch's responsibilities in a democratic world? "When the Queen," wrote Altrincham, "has lost the bloom of youth, her reputation will depend far more than it does now upon her personality. She will have to say things which people can remember, and do things...
Depicting a man who has lost track of himself, the movie occasionally catches up with Taylor. The ramifications of cowardice cannot be treated quite so lightly. On his side are his devoted wife (Dorothy Malone) and his loyal Korean buddy (Jack Lord). Taylor shuffles about Madrid in grim seizures of fear, but they are never convincingly documented. In the end, when he has proved to himself that he can take a cloud or leave it, he wakes up to find himself whole again. The adventure is grand; the mission is accomplished with some frightening sideslips. But the movie fails...
...Lord of the Manor of Lychpole" (Waugh himself lives in a stately house called Piers Court...
...That wouldn't stop Pinfold. He doesn't really believe in his religion, you know. He just pretends to because he thinks it aristocratic. It goes with being Lord of the Manor...