Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Some Republican wingers have gravitated to Pete du Pont, who has positioned himself to the right of Kemp with his advocacy of drug testing in the schools and free-market nostrums like eliminating farm subsidies. But the former Delaware Governor remains too patrician for most conservatives and too conservative for most patricians...
...spent much of his childhood on Embassy Row in the Fairfax Hotel, where his parents had an apartment. He fondly remembers climbing onto the roof and hurling water balloons down on the cars on Massachusetts Avenue. He was an honor student and captain of the football team at the patrician St. Alban's School. He met Tipper (a childhood nickname; her real name is Mary Elizabeth) at his St. Alban's graduation party. John Davis, who taught Gore church history, remembers him as the straightest arrow in the quiver, someone whose only evident vice was an excess of virtue: "Everybody...
...Pont, 52, insists that his heavyweight name has no real bearing on his campaign. It is an irresistible angle for journalists, he admits, and the patrician roman numeral provides an easy stereotype. Du Pont is astute enough to ban reporters from his elegant home near Wilmington and his sprawling summer house in Maine, but he knows he cannot really bury his privileged background. "I am what I am. I can't change it, so I don't worry about...
This stern upbringing owed as much to New England Puritanism as it did to Greek ethnicity. Dr. Nicholas Zervas, a close friend of Dukakis', describes Euterpe as a "really patrician woman. She would have made a wonderful Brahmin." Unlike many immigrant families, the Dukakises were not religious, supporting the Greek Orthodox Church primarily for cultural reasons. If anything, the family was governed by what Bakalar calls the "quintessential Protestant ethic. Whatever gifts you received, you had to give back. They really believed that money corrupted...
George Plimpton is most widely known as the lean and rumpled patrician who trained with the Detroit Lions and then shared that male fantasy with football fans in his best-selling Paper Lion. Now, in The Curious Case of Sidd Finch, Plimpton indulges the fantasy that he is a novelist. The book, which began as a benign hoax in the April 1, 1985, issue of SPORTS ILLUSTRATED, is based on a charming conceit: a narrator suffering from writer's block tells the story of Sidd Finch, a British-born Buddhist-trained monk who can throw a baseball 168 m.p.h with...