Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Alice Higinbotham Patterson, 87, first wife of New York Daily News Founder Joseph Medill Patterson and mother of the late Alicia Patterson Guggenheim (editor and publisher of Long Island's Newsday until her death in 1963), a Chicago patrician who did her best to lead her husband's life, hunting big game, flying with the Wright Brothers, finally divorced Captain Joe in 1938 and returned to a secluded life of gardening and charities; of congestive heart failure; in Chicago...
...Johnson suffers, too, from a kind of generational gap that yawns wider every time Bobby Kennedy addresses a crowd. It is not simply a matter of age. As a kind of latter-day Andrew Jackson in an era that looks for a more patrician patina on its politicians, he strikes many as plain corny or simply crude. Last week, for example, while en route to Manila, the wife of an allied Prime Minister had just confided to her seat mate that she preferred bacon even to caviar when the President leaned over, speared one of her two rashers and devoured...
...fantasy to imagine that they were standing in the White House portico, circa 1972. It was almost a case of take-your-pick. Dressed alike in dark suits and rep ties-only the breastpocket handkerchief set Harvardman Kennedy apart from Yaleman Lindsay-both exuded all the youth, intelligence and patrician good looks a voter could hope for. Though mere commoners in their respective parties, the mayor and the Senator each had about him a certain look of political inevitability...
...Years of Gospel. Lekachman retells the major elements in the development of a genius: the patrician upbringing, the early triumphs at Eton and Cambridge, the cocksure rise in the British Treasury, the friendships with Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, the prolific outpouring of books, each more imaginative and important than the last. The climax, of course, was The General Theory, published in 1936, which argued heretically that economic cycles could be tamed and unemployment and inflation defeated by conscious government manipulation of national budgets, taxes and interest rates. In sum: man could control his economic fate...
...Giovanni, and the guile of a Mephistopheles. For Rudolf Bing, it's all in a day's work. At 64, he is the undisputed lord of the manor, and he looks it. Though in physique (6 ft., 139 Ibs.) he resembles a patrician heron stuffed into herringbone, there is an impeccably correct bearing about him that says "Beware: regal and remote." His face and grey-fringed dome, all right-angle turns, are a study in parchment over steel. A Vienna-born English subject, he could easily pass as the British ambassador to Paris-a job that he wouldn...