Word: nouveaux
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...blood mixed with ordinary red remember dourly how the King's golf led him to his second wife, the commoner Mary Liliane Baels. She used to wait for Leopold at the 18th hole at Le Zoute on the North Sea, a tony resort, but not too tony for nouveaux riÇhes. Like her royal husband, she is a topnotch golfer, plays the Onex course under 80, has twice held the Club de Genève women's championship. Though she is merely the daughter of a newly rich fish merchant, the King has bestowed...
...thinks, regard the U.S. somewhat as the Greeks regarded the rise of muscular, uncultured Rome. The Greeks told themselves (as Europeans do today) that these new barbarians across the water might have more money-but they would never be really civilized. European intellectuals have always claimed that those American nouveaux riches are uncouth. They have now made the damning discovery that Americans are also unhappy. America in their eyes is the playgirl of the Western world-and not even a pretty one-with plumbing instead of arteries, ice water instead of blood, neuroses instead of a heart and a radio...
...executives . . . continue to go their old Lobster-Supper-Charlie way, delighting in the pitiful ostentations of the nouveaux-riches. . . . They can never leave well enough off alone...
...Road of the Exquisite." Good times and tourist dollars had smothered the revolutionary fire in younger Mexicans. Today's artists were more interested in painting to please the multitude of nouveaux riches than in refighting battles already won or lost. "Now," mourned Siqueiros, "60% of our painters have left our school in favor of that of Paris. Our school is social, heroic, and monumental. They are going, more or less, on the road of the exquisite, of the snob...
...France's Immortals, the black-robed Académie Française, voted to ostracize two famed colleagues: Abel Bonnard, writer who had served as Vichy Minister of Education; Abel Hermant, octogenarian novelist who wrote for Paris's pro-Nazi Les Nouveaux Temps...