Word: patrician
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...patrician Hurd is the son and grandson of Tory M.P.s. After graduating from Cambridge, he joined the diplomatic service and served in Beijing, Washington and Rome. Eager to break into politics, he joined the Conservative Party's research department in 1966, and two years later became Heath's private secretary. In 1974 Hurd was elected M.P. for mid-Oxfordshire. Under Thatcher he served as Deputy Foreign Secretary, Secretary of State for Northern Ireland and Home Secretary. Last year, despite Hurd's advocacy of closer ties with Europe, Thatcher appointed him to the job he had always wanted, Foreign Secretary...
...Bush's patrician approach -- gradually building trust among other members of an elite and cutting private deals with them -- has often worked effectively on the foreign front. But it does not deliver as well in domestic policy, where myriad officials, interest groups and ordinary citizens demand to have their say, both before any proposed solution is made public and afterward. When Bush tries to communicate with a TV audience, he often lacks confidence. More important, except when he is campaigning for himself, Bush shrinks from framing options in a stark and persuasive manner that can force people to make...
...more WASPy the name of the fellowship, the better. Fellowships with ultra-WASPy names were all created a long time ago by wealthy patrician families, who made them extremely generous since they'd be won by one of their children anyway...
...limits. Character, for Titian, was something mainly possessed by men. His women are by no means insipid or vacant, but they never have the singularity of being that leaps from his best male portraits. They are always cast in the passive voice: the madonnas with their union of tenderness, patrician grace and a certain country solidity, and the nymphs and goddesses (Venus especially), those Venetian odalisques whose weighty gold- pink flesh may not conform to modern conventions of beauty but excited Titian's contemporaries to rapture. There too Titian embodied the assumptions of his time, place and class. What terser...
...Americans to run to the barricades, they have to care enough to erect them. So far, for their dose of populism, Americans are content to let their patrician President eat pork rinds, lay out a horseshoe pitch at the White House and evoke a "kinder, gentler" nation like a smug, self-fulfilling national mantra...