Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Nehru in 1958: "Old age seemed to have given him another face rather than merely wrinkling his features. In his voice, his poise, under the crust of the intellectual patrician, appeared the image-calm and gentle-of a man who no doubt from adolescence had educated himself to be a gentleman...
...interest in heraldry suggests he may have been a nobleman, though his faulty Latin-the patrician language at the time-contradicts it. He very likely was well traveled; a Bern watermark appears on several prints...
Though Ellsworth Bunker replaced him last April, it is still far too early to fully assess Lodge's performance in that difficult job. Author Miller does fairly note that in Viet Nam, as elsewhere, Lodge's occasional patrician arrogance often rubbed people the wrong way. But equally manifest are his common sense, his capacity for concentration and unremitting hard work, his decisiveness and clarity of thought. A difficult man. A rare one too. For unlike many others now in public life, Lodge still believes in an old-fashioned virtue: putting his country far above himself...
...Walter Camp's alltime, all-America football team and a courtly, conservative blueblood who took frequent potshots at the New Deal as a third-generation, longtime (1920-1945) Congressman from F.D.R.'s own New York district; and Mrs. Marie Blackton, 56, descended from a patrician Russian military family; both for the second time; in an Episcopal ceremony in New York...
...great liability that trim, urbane, greyingly handsome Kingman Brewster, at 48, looks rather as if he had been type-cast by Otto Preminger for the job of chief salesman and spokesman for Yale. An eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant, he is every inch the patrician who enjoys academic ceremony. At the same time, says one friend, Brewster "holds a fundamental irreverence for anything stuffy, too old or established" -and delights close friends at dinner parties with his self-depreciating humor and talent for mimicry. Actually a loner who carefully guards his deepest feelings, Brewster is also gregarious enough...