Word: patrician
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Then Alan, 21 years old, came back to Findellen, matured, attractive, humorous but with all the unbalanced egotism of his childhood. With him came Bayard Van Schoeck, friendly patrician. Alan's reawakened passion frightened Julie. She found protection in the steady strength of Van Schoeck. The climax came in a meeting between Alan and her father. Sparks flew. The old man hit the boy with her parasol, then collapsed under stress of emotion...
...Boston aristocracy." That caste has so little breathing since and elbow room in a Celtic Jewish-Italian-Greek town that the sympathetic sociologists may deem it worthier of encouragement than of dispraise; but youth is intolerant. Our satirist seeks to show, or "show up," the life of a youthful patrician from birth to Class...
...spectacle of the patrician turned for the moment into the beggar will be democratically moving, and should loosen many wallets. When the Seniors have removed themselves from the steps of Widener and have spread their traditional sheet to receive what manna may fall, all Freshmen, one hopes, will remember the honor of their class and rise to the spirit of the day with many clinking shekels. "And cursed be he who first cries 'Hold, enough...
...same evening George Dandin, Molière's sophisticated trifle of the uncouth husband who was hoodwinked by his philandering, patrician wife, is revived prettily in a good English translation. But all its antic graces cannot hide the fact that it is a gilded potboiler. It is done in the mode of that simpering, formal period when Truth was nothing and an attitude everything...
Nancy Ann. The titular character is a young miss who, in spite of growing up with all the advantages of patrician society, does everything lefthanded. Those advantages include a quartet of berating aunts who are constantly trying to jerk her into a state of perfection. Their nagging accounts for Nancy Ann's state of perennial flutter...