Word: patricianism
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...Airways stewardess who prided herself on being, "chic, sophisticated and smart," Lucie sometimes did her hair even before going to the gym for a workout. So it made sense she would have her hair freshly coiffed now, the natural blond mane cut straight and falling across her striking, almost patrician English features like a curtain of glass beads. Concealing her blue eyes were a pair of oversize, Gucci-style sunglasses. Her nails were perfect little half-ellipses, the cuticles neatly trimmed...
...Bush I and Clinton administrations, he was a U.S. attorney in Boston during the Reagan administration, and made his mark prosecuting corruption cases. He has impressed careerists in the FBI and at the Justice Department with his intellectual courage and his passion for public service. He is a patrician, an Ivy Leaguer who?s very smart very high-minded and idealistic. He?s also a decorated Vietnam War hero. Before Ashcroft?s confirmation, Mueller was essentially running the Justice Department as the acting deputy Attorney General. If there were a department-wide vote at Justice to name Freeh?s replacement...
DIED. S. DILLON RIPLEY, 87, patrician head of the Smithsonian Institution whose flair and insight guided it through its greatest period of growth; in Washington, D.C. During Ripley's two-decade reign as secretary, the Smithsonian founded seven research facilities and eight museums, including the U.S. capital's most popular, the Air and Space Museum. The number of annual visitors increased nearly threefold to 30 million...
...Lincoln, N.M. Partly paralyzed from cancer, he became the oldest leading actor last year to receive an Oscar bid, for his role in The Straight Story. He worked as a stuntman in more than 300 films before landing his first significant speaking role in 1976. DIED. WILLIAM BUNDY, 83, patrician counselor to three Presidents, who was a pivotal figure in leading America into the Vietnam War along with his brother McGeorge Bundy, National Security Adviser under Kennedy and Johnson, and the rest of the elite corps of "the best and the brightest"; in Princeton, N.J. Bundy supported aerial attacks...
Bush's ancestors were patrician New Englanders. But he has bought property in a forgotten part of Texas off a small state highway west of Waco that isn't on the way to or from anywhere of note. The land is rolling blackland prairie used to pasture Hereford cattle or grow corn or wheat. It has a nice view across miles of fields and pastures. Unlike Johnson, Bush makes no pretense that the ranch will be a working enterprise. He says he'll spend his time there reading or walking with Laura or doing chores around the property. In other...