Word: patrician
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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After three decades as an architect of social policy, the erudite and garrulous Senator with an impish face and patrician accent has attained a reputation for prescience. Back in 1965, when he was serving as an Assistant Secretary of Labor, he wrote a report, The Negro Family: The Case for National Action, that provoked a searing controversy. Using the work of Black Sociologists Kenneth Clark and E. Franklin Frazier, Moynihan contended that the growing number of one-parent families living on welfare was preventing blacks from achieving true equality in American society. If the trend did not stop, he charged...
...public one. Wherever he was, Ninoy turned his home into a kind of 24-hour coffee shop in which the loquacious host and his associates would thrash out tactics through the night, while Cory waited on them. The ceaseless bustle must have placed a considerable strain on the retiring patrician woman. "Cory is an introvert, Ninoy was an extrovert," says Ninoy's favorite sister, Lupita Aquino Kashiwahara. "He thrived on people. She doesn't need them...
...speaks with a Southern lilt, one has a Boston brogue, one a patrician richness, one a Western twang. They represent four different regions of the country, reflect four distinct personal styles and stand for four divergent political traditions. Their total years in the nation's service come to 128, and with their retirement this year, they are each closing a chapter in the history of Congress. Russell Long of Louisiana is the sharp, smooth-talking, back-room Senate insider; Barry Goldwater is the quixotic loner whose conservatism was ahead of its time; Charles McC. Mathias of Maryland...
Government Professor A. Lawrence Lowell, who took over in 1909, was a patrician, a conservative and a consolidator. He modified Eliot's total freedom of choice and insisted that each student must choose a field of concentration. "Every educated man should know a little of everything and something well," he said. The growth under Eliot had made little provision for where the swarms of students should live; Lowell discovered Edward S. Harkness. A Yale graduate, Harkness wanted to give his alma mater the funds for new student dormitories. Yale spent two years thinking it over. Nettled, Harkness made the same...
...American establishment is entitled to celebrate itself, if ever a baby has come a long way from rustic origins, it is Harvard University. Despite the continuing challenge from such superb schools as Stanford, the University of California, Berkeley, and the University of Texas at Austin, Harvard, under its patrician president Derek Bok, remains the gauge against which others are measured. As the Rev. Theodore Hesburgh, president of Notre Dame, puts it, Harvard is "the standard bearer and symbol of excellence...