Word: patricianism
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...still must run for the job, but it is a foregone conclusion that he will succeed; the P.R.I, has held a monopoly on political power in Mexico for 52 years. The real surprise was the stepped-up scheduling for Lopez Portillo's announcement, which may mean that the patrician author-statesman has come to realize that he is in deep political trouble. Despite a booming economy and 72 billion bbl. of proven oil reserves, Mexico has been spending money so fast that the country faces a balance of payments deficit of as much as $.10 billion this year...
DIED. Roger Baldwin, 97, a founder of the American Civil Liberties Union and a lifelong champion of individual freedom; of heart disease; in Ridgewood, N.J. The patrician but plain-living Baldwin worked as a probation officer, college professor, common laborer and executive secretary of the Civic League of St. Louis before joining with two New York City lawyers in 1920 to form the A.C.L.U., which he headed until 1950. Though Baldwin was labeled a leftist for his defense of radical labor unions during the 1920s and 1930s, the A.C.L.U. also came to the aid of Darwinian high school Teacher John...
...elevating Lady Diana into a stellar attraction. Movie stars have become princesses before. Never, however, has a Princess looked so much like a movie star; certainly no Queen-to-be has ever done so much for a pair of blue jeans. Lady Diana's seemingly paradoxical quality of patrician funkiness has caught the spirit of a generation that fancies itself a little more romantic than those of the '70s and '60s and acts, at least outwardly, a good deal more conservatively. She is already widely imitated-the hair, the clothes, the ruffled collars -but never duplicated. Certainly...
There was more than good personal chemistry behind the mutual striving for Franco-American entente. Indeed there was a broad range of foreign policy issues on which the Socialist President's views seemed more compatible with Washington's than those of his patrician predecessor. On East-West questions, for example, both Mitterrand and his Foreign Minister have emphatically denounced the Soviet menace in Afghanistan and Poland. In fact, the Socialists have made it clear to Marchais's Communists that they cannot hope to play even a token role in the government without endorsing that condemnation of Moscow's imperialism...
...course, that there was no patrician order at the Harvard of the 1950s, or even that no vestiges remain today. The university will doubtlessly never lose its segment of the student body that languishes at vaunted social clubs and idles at the secluded retreats of the very rich. Yet, such members of the Class of 1956 could only survive as outcasts from the much larger group that looked forward to perhaps the ultimate opportunity for achievement, intellectual and otherwise...