Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...addition, the super-competitive Division One of the ECAC has now entered a patrician-plebian stage, where the stronger teams get stronger and the weaker squads increase their moral victories each season...
Bellotti will probably win this one handily. He has the name recognition. He's a Democrat. He has traditionally done well in industrial cities. Also, Bellotti has discarded some of the more conservative tenets of his political philosophy. He comes across as a workingman's candidate more than patrician Weld--although both are equally hypocritical in claiming allegiance to the common man. The question is how much damage Weld has done to Bellotti's future ambitions. Bellotti may win, but his PCM-MBM connections could hurt him in a race for the governorship--a position he sorely wants...
...eastern Long Island, as much a part of the coastal view as the countless red-and-white lobster pots from which he has, over the years, extracted a fortune worth a couple or three million dollars. Craggy-faced, silver-haired, attractively beefy, Duryea reminds you of a fine old patrician gentleman: so much money and style, and so little of the incisive wit or brilliance that might scare off the natives. He speaks the language of the east, which is to say he pronounces his words with a heavy Republican accent, and with the marked deliberation...
...bringing were mixed blessings. His ad vantages could have cut him off from the world; instead, they helped him to perceive the miseries of those at the oppo site end of the social spectrum. His sympathy for the wretched of the earth was visceral. But he had undisguised patrician contempt for the middle class, those who hankered after comforts he took for granted and who felt threatened by the prospect of militant poor. Significantly, Kennedy's most bitter political enemies were men, like L.B.J., who had scrambled up from poor or straitened childhoods...
With law degrees from both Washington and Lee (LL.B. '31) and Harvard (LL.M. '32), Powell practiced law for 35 years with one of Richmond's oldest firms. His politics were those of a patrician Virginia Democrat, though he often supported Republicans in national elections. As chairman of the Richmond school board in 1959, he won a hard-fought battle against the state's segregationists, who were urging massive resistance to the Supreme Court's ruling on school desegregation. As president of the American Bar Association in 1964-65. he persuaded colleagues to support legal...