Word: nepotistical
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...Call to Greatness. Paul VI is neither inquisitor nor nepotist nor Renaissance prince. Yet he is a strange and complex man whom few have been able to define with precision. Italian Banker Vittorino Veronese, a former chief of Italy's Catholic Action movement, says that he has "such a very rich personality that he is impossible to classify." Paul's friends claim that he combines the learning and intellectuality of Pius with the openness and reforming spirit of John XXIII. Critics point out that he seems to share Pius' imperious ways with subordinates and lacks John...
That Wyler survived this occupational ordeal to become one of Hollywood's few top directors is due to his perseverance and talent. That he became the exception to Hollywood's rule of nepotism is a minor phenomenon. His mother's cousin, famed Nepotist Carl Laemmle, who liked to staff his movie enterprises with relatives, domestic and foreign, plucked Wyler from his Alsace-Lorraine home shortly after World War I, set him down at Universal. He left the studio...
...flagrant nepotist, Franklin Roosevelt has found places for four members of his large clan in his Administration: Son James, Secretary ($10,000); late First Cousin (mother's side) Warren Delano Robbins, Minister to Canada ($10,000); late Fifth Cousin, Henry Latrobe Roosevelt, Assistant Secretary to the Navy ($10,000); Mrs. Irene de Bruyn Robbins (Warren Delano Robbins' widow), assistant chief of the State Department's Foreign Service Buildings Office ($6,500). Two others, Uncle Frederick A. Delano (Vice-Chairman of National Resources Committee & Chairman of National Park & Planning Commission), and Cousin William A. Delano (member of National...
...wife and his brother and his brother's wife own the business-the nepotist corporate structure which is another Hollywood characteristic. But neither the corporate structure, nor Mr. Disney's indefatigability, nor the 75 animators, nor the $75,000 camera, nor the $800,000 plant, nor the $2,000,000 gross explain the great Quality X in Walt Disney, Inc., the thing which in the past decade has sent thousands of feet of wonderful little animals and fairybook people dancing out into the world-people and animals whose appeal is so profound and so pervasive that they...
...Iowa is the Field chicken stew.* During the campaign it was made up in great cauldrons and served to all comers. Senator Brookhart attempted to deride Mr. Field as the "chicken stew politician" but the voters liked chicken stew, smacked their lips. Mr. Field attacked Senator Brookhart as a nepotist (TIME, May 30), accused him of being off on Chautauqua circuits when he should have been sitting in the Senate earning his keep...
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