Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Vidal thinks of himself as a liberal-or, as he prefers to put it, a "maverick lemming." In fact, he is more nearly a conservative, with a taste for tradition in literature and privilege in life. He conveys the oddly patrician appeal of an elegant and unabashed snob and he has the patrician's special toughness...
...Prime Minister had called the sudden general elections in the hope of uniting his party and consolidating his power. His failure to accomplish either aim reflected the fact that Northern Ireland's politics are still ruled by prejudice and personalities. The patrician Prime Minister is a cautious and moderate man who talks about issues; his opponents stir their followers with appeals to passion. Extremist Paisley, for instance, calls O'Neill a "traitor and a tyrant," and his followers delight in scrawling "F-k the Pope" on boardings. Only the extremist factions received any real psychological lift from...
...holding?at Prince's price. Angered, Bluhdorn quickly arranged to unload 150,000 Armour shares at $56 to Richard Pistell's General Host Corp., a Manhattan baking and food-freezing firm. Pistell took an option on Bluhdorn's remaining 600,000 Armour shares at $60. Thus Bluhdorn escaped the patrician Prince's trap. With great help from Bluhdorn's stock, Pistell last month captured control of Armour, despite Prince's frantic efforts to resist...
...civilian army arguments continues to have a certain attraction, because it suggests a certain kind of patrician concern with the national good. That is the spirit which permeates President Pusey's letter, and which, it may be assumed, must have permeated the Corporation's deliberations. It is the spirit of the 1950's, of a time of low expectations, when every ideal had proven empty and we hoped for no more than to hold on to what we had. It was a time of eternal conflict ("....when it became apparent that this country was destined to maintain a large military...
Among ordinary Ulster citizens, there was considerable sympathy for some of the reform demands. O'Neill, a patrician, soft-spoken former Irish Guards captain who has been Prime Minister since 1963, was already trying to parlay that sympathy into a vote of confidence in his gradual program for equality. But when activist demonstrators began joining the protest ranks, extremist groups within O'Neill's Unionist Party reacted violently. Among the first to express its ire was the oligarchic Orange Order, a powerful political-religious society whose members have included all Prime Ministers and virtually every Cabinet Minister...