Word: patrician
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...native ground Edmund Wilson, who died early this summer (TIME, June 26), was America's most distinguished critic. But he was also an international Man of Letters who fluently pursued learning in seven alien tongues, bringing it back alive for cultivated U.S. readers in serviceably patrician English prose. Wilson's aim, or one of them, was to create "a history of man's ideas and imagining" set against the conditions that shaped both the ideas and the men. Of all his literary forays with that end in view, the broadest and most passionately humane is his study...
...swiss cheese architecture" of ubiquitous Holiday Inns and equally inescapable Howard Johnson Restaurants where "music appears to emanate from the toilets." Crippled by age and pain, weighted down by his Churchillian frame. Wilson could still find the energy to laugh at it all, dismissing the landscape with a patrician arrogance that his energy and learning had long ago earned...
...original best-selling hunk of heave and cheeseburger, states that he only wrote the book for money, and that he took the stories entirely from the memories of friends and family. His intentions and sources show. His Sicilian Don Tommasino is a type from Italian folklore, the local patrician who rules his regime with warm tongue and hard hand, and guards the locals from threatening outsiders...
...Value Modification bill, which will devalue the dollar 8.57% by raising the price of gold, its prospects for relatively swift passage were all but certain. The man most responsible for anesthetizing the issue in Congress-and thus allowing an unavoidable economic adjustment to take place-is a thoughtful, patrician Democratic Representative from Milwaukee named Henry Reuss. Testifying before the Joint Economic Committee last week. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns told a blushing Reuss: "If it weren't for you, I doubt that the Smithsonian agreement [devaluing the dollar and realigning currency-exchange rates] would have been concluded when...
...acting is superb, particularly Innes-Fergus McDade as Mrs. Venable, the obsessed, patrician Southern matron, Jeannie Lindheim, as Catherine, is slightly less effective, perhaps because her character is less clearly drawn. The best of the minor characters is Mary Elizabeth Leach as Catherine's mother, a fluttery, weakminded old lady who only wants to keep things calm so that she can get part of Sebastian's estate...