Word: patrician
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Poor Paul Barstow is once again the daffy old man, this time Helene's father. Playing the aged all summer seems to have made him prematurely senile: his Nonancourt is far too feeble for my taste, lacking the vigor one would expect from a hardy rural patrician...
...were the products of two remarkable political careers and also of two Britains: Macmillan, the skillful, courageous and often ruthless patrician who had rescued his country from the debris of Suez and led it into an era of unprecedented prosperity; Harold Wilson, the dry, diligent and often devious son of a provincial chemist who had risen by hard work and chance (including the death of the man he succeeded, Hugh Gaitskell) to the top of the Labor Party. As he faced Macmillan, who had gone to Oxford by family tradition, Harold Wilson, who had gone to Oxford on a scholarship...
...morality tale and a corrosive indictment of the priest-ridden society of Portugal in the 1860s. The book was written in 1871, but Queiroz had his troubles getting it published. After it finally appeared in 1874, it was inevitably put on the Index. But by the time Queiroz, a patrician career diplomat as well as author, died in 1900, he was recognized not only as Portugal's first realistic novelist but his country's greatest writer of prose. Widely praised and known in Europe for half a century, Amaro is now available in the U.S. for the first...
...Cassius is no bum, he is no pugilistic patrician, either. After his narrow first-round recovery he was shaken again in rounds four and seven. Clay's offense was wild and ineffective on the inside and even the few solid punches that Jones couldn't deflect did little damage to the small Harlem heavyweight. Only in round three did Clay connect with a series of sharp jabs and combinations...
...Coast educators, the answer is simple. In a state long dominated by huge public colleges. Occidental has parlayed smallness. smart leadership and intellectual freedom into a warm, friendly spirit, first-rate teaching, and a taste for the experimental. Once considered to be a preserve for academically delicate youth from patrician Pasadena, Oxy has in fact long been especially strong in history, diplomacy and world affairs. It installed the first nuclear reactor (in 1958) for undergraduate teaching in Southern California, has such high pre-med standards that graduates are virtually assured of acceptance in medical schools of their choice...