Word: patricianism
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...dozen years ago, Republican Senator Charles Percy of Illinois seemed an ideal presidential prospect. Gifted with patrician good looks and a rich, sonorous voice, Percy, by the end of his first Senate term in 1972, had earned a solid reputation as an independent-minded Republican in the progressive Rockefeller mold. But his star soon stopped soaring. A stodgy campaigner, he made a tentative presidential bid in 1976 and nearly lost his 1978 Senate race to a little-known Democrat, Attorney Alex Seith. Trying to keep pace with America's growing conservatism, Percy changed his stands on economic issues, foreign...
Historically, Democrats won by embracing disparate and even warring factions. The New Deal coalition included urban ethnics, Southern Protestants, dirt farmers, Jewish intellectuals, illiterate coal miners, poor blacks and virulent racists. Improbably, they rallied behind a Groton-and Harvard-educated polio victim with a patrician accent...
Bentsen's manner is patrician and somber, his speaking style stolid, less rousing even than Mondale's. According to Dallas Times Herald Columnist Molly Ivins, Bentsen "has the charisma of a dead catfish." But he is nonetheless popular with both Republicans and Democrats in Texas and has a loyal following among Mexican Americans, who appreciate his fluency in Spanish. He won re-election in 1982 with 59% of the vote, the highest plurality in a Texas Senate race since 1958. Bentsen, however, might exacerbate Mondale's single biggest campaign embarrassment so far: the Texan gets more Political...
...Republican side, patrician Elliot Richardson, a veteran of three Cabinet posts who resigned as Richard Nixon's Attorney General in Watergate's Saturday Night Massacre, should get a run for his money from feisty Businessman Raymond Shamie, who garnered 39% of the vote when he challenged Ted Kennedy...
HOWEVER, the occasional beautifully-writes package and Cardinal's more striking images ultimately lift The Words To Say It above the level of most popular fiction. Translator Patrician Goodheart carefully reproduces the rhythm and atmosphere of the French. Particularly notable are the many passages evoking the life and color of colonial Algeria, where Cardinal lived as a child...