Word: patrician
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...McCarthy basically is not the fascist type but the type of the left-wing Populist or Jacobin agitator, the barn burner, the Wild Man, by an infallible instinct and not 'by accident' subverting precisely those institutions that are the most conservative, venerable and patrician-from the Constitution, the most decorated or paternal generals (Marshall, Eisenhower, Taylor, Zwicker) to the leaders of our most deeply established religions and precisely the most ancient of our universities...
...satisfies the resentments of his followers (both those from the Eastern slums and those from the Western, nouveaux riches) because his sincerest hatred is always against the oldest, most rooted, and most deeply educated patrician families (the Cabot Lodges, Achesons, Conants, Adlai Stevensons). Confining myself to native American growths and not to alien importations like Communism, I would classify McCarthy as the most radically and instinctively leftist dynamite in American history since the I.W.W...
...about the New York election; it will not be decided on the personal appeal of the Candidates. Both Harriman and Ives are as colorless as they are capable. Harriman, who held a string of diplomatic and cabinet posts under the New and Fair Deals, is too timid and too patrician to campaign effectively. He was chosen as nominee partly because he could write his own campaign check (his grandfather built the Union Pacific), and partly because his success as a businessman would attract conservative voters...
Portly John Jacob Astor, whose great-great-great-grandfather started the family fortune by gathering furs, only to have many of his male descendants dissipate parcels of their inheritance by giving furs away, was up to his patrician ears in the sort of misfortune that afflicts only the very rich. It began when Astor, 42, divorced his second wife Gertrude in June, then drew a deep breath and took on No. 3, Miami Divorcee Dolores ("Dolly") Pullman, 26. Off for a European honeymoon billed as a six-month safari, Astor was back in Manhattan only a month later, offered...
...intended victim, Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...