Word: patrician
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Relevant Antiquity. Fellini and Cinematographer Giuseppe Rotunno (who also shot Toby Dammit) used tons of smoke, incense and cement dust to reproduce a sense of murky antiquity. Yet there is little doubt that, in scenes like the death of a patrician couple who prefer suicide to inevitable political assassination, Fellini is attempting to render this vast fresco as a giant metaphor for the 1960s. "If Petronius' work is a full-blooded description of the atmosphere of those times," Fellini admits, "the film that I adapted from it is a panorama, an allegorical satire of our present-day world...
Presentations of honorary degrees are generally solemn affairs, but retiring Dartmouth President John Sloan Dickey put some kick in his kudos for Yale's President Kingman Brewster. Said Dickey, bestowing the LL.D.: "Never one to do things the easy way, you prepared for your avocation as a patrician sailor by being the eleventh-generation descendant of a Mayflower immigrant. As a Yale man, you prepared for the law by going to Harvard, then taught at Harvard Law School in preparation for the Yale presidency. As the editor of the Yale Daily News, you campaigned against the dress of Vassar...
...undersigned condemn the hypocritical racist lies and slander of Portfolio Pig Pusey, Faculty Flunkey Ford, patrician punk von Stade ("I just can't believe our darkies could do this--even a small group of them"), and Weenie Whizzer Watson, as mad-dog Insanity and naked aggression against the People...
Vidal thinks of himself as a liberal-or, as he prefers to put it, a "maverick lemming." In fact, he is more nearly a conservative, with a taste for tradition in literature and privilege in life. He conveys the oddly patrician appeal of an elegant and unabashed snob and he has the patrician's special toughness...
...holding?at Prince's price. Angered, Bluhdorn quickly arranged to unload 150,000 Armour shares at $56 to Richard Pistell's General Host Corp., a Manhattan baking and food-freezing firm. Pistell took an option on Bluhdorn's remaining 600,000 Armour shares at $60. Thus Bluhdorn escaped the patrician Prince's trap. With great help from Bluhdorn's stock, Pistell last month captured control of Armour, despite Prince's frantic efforts to resist...