Word: patrician
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...less affluent, he sings from the standard party hymnal. But when Harkin gets personal, he deftly exploits the politics of roots and resentment. He is the son of a Slovene immigrant mother who died young and an Iowan coal miner who never got to high school. In attacking the patrician President he keenly dislikes, Harkin can make the incumbent's very name sound odious...
...David Broder, Harkin is "the candidate of Bush's nightmares." Business Week calls him a "populist who is raring to sink a pitchfork into the patrician hide of George Bush." The New York Times reports that the 51-year-old Iowa senator "offers his beleaguered party a potent mix of old-time religion, prairie populism and group therapy...
Senator JAY ROCKEFELLER'S decision last week to bow out of the race for the Democratic presidential nomination was welcome news for Bush's campaign gurus. After digging into the patrician West Virginian's past, Bush handlers concluded their "opposition research" had turned up virtually nothing negative. The best the Bushies could do was a 1984 book chiding Rockefeller for zigzagging on a few issues. "He made a mistake by pulling out," says a White House adviser. "And we're glad...
...five weeks ago after his heart began to fibrillate as he was jogging at Camp David. The result has been a subtle but unmistakable change in Bush's outlook and demeanor. In both public and private, he has become more candid and confiding, less guarded and much funnier. His patrician reserve has cracked a bit and the emotions he has long held in check are suddenly visible...
JANOS STARKER (Mercury Living Presence). Accompanied by Antal Dorati and the London Symphony Orchestra, the splendidly patrician Starker restores freshness to three warhorses: Dvorak's Cello Concerto, Bruch's Kol Nidrei and Tchaikovsky's Variations on a Rococo Theme. This is one of several remarkable recordings immaculately transferred from the Mercury Living Presence series (1951-68), which for sound quality remains unsurpassed...