Word: patricianism
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...rzburg and Lübeck, all towns with populations under 230,000. He also made an unscheduled visit to Koblenz, 40 miles south of Bonn, where he was born in 1926; his father was a civilian official with French forces occupying the Rhineland. Often looking more populist than patrician, the spindly French President plunged into the crowds, delighting them with a spate of French-accented German phrases...
Combining an ease of manner with a touch of the patrician Yankee and an impressive intellectual grasp, Bush does not excite his audiences; he reassures them. Emphasizing his considerable foreign affairs experience (CIA director, Ambassador to the U.N. and China), he criticizes Carter for overemphasizing human rights and calls instead for a policy based on strategic interests. Says he: "I sense that people are frustrated about foreign affairs. It is not a frantic cry but more of a muted feeling about how to restore respect for the U.S." He admits that the caucuses will be a "first test of whether...
...never threats were based on an accurate initial perception: the time had come when all the parties involved-the Salisbury regime, the guerrillas and the so-called frontline African states-desperately wanted a settlement. As the patrician, 60-year-old Foreign Secretary explained to TIME'S Frank Melville in an exclusive interview in his ornate Victorian office, that same premise lies behind his current hopes for a durable peace. Excerpts from the interview...
...easily. In a short speech he asserts his optimism about the results in the coming caucuses. But the New England aristocrat (his father was a wealthy businessman and U.S. Senator from Connecticut) turned Texas oilman seemed patronizing when discussing that heritage. Said Bush: "They say I'm a patrician. I don't even know what the word means. I'll have to look it up." He also looks down on Jimmy Carter: "It's a shame for the presidency to have that little guy in there. He's got no class...
...Lucky camera. Many women would kill for her slender, fashion-model figure, for that ash-blond hair, oval face, porcelain skin and those high, exquisite cheekbones. Her eyes mirror intelligence; their pale blue sparkle demands a new adjective: merulean. Only a slight bump down the plane of her long, patrician nose redeems her profile from perfection...