Word: patricianism
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Mighty Chain. The greatest pressure for change has come from Willie. Physically akin to his grandfather, with piercing eyes, patrician nose and blond hair, young Hearst says that he has always been fascinated by the once mighty chain of 32 dailies. "As a kid I would go to San Simeon [the vast Hearst estate] and groove on the whole vision. I really admired my grandfather. What a mover! I decided you had to have money to do these things, and I realized the money came from the papers...
Mother Seton was indeed very American. Born in New York City two years before the Declaration of Independence, she came from a patrician colonial family, kin of the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts. A pretty, vivacious girl, at 19 she married William Seton, 25, son of a wealthy importer. On a trip to Italy in 1803, young Seton died of tuberculosis, leaving his wife nearly penniless and with five children to support. Friends in Italy talked to her about Catholicism, and in 1805, upon her return to the U.S., she shocked her Episcopal family and friends by becoming a Roman...
Rose's fear is enough to strike dread into the Bellamys, who know their patrician comfort depends on a skilled corps of servants. Eaton Place may be home to the Bellamys, but it belongs to their servants: Mr. Hudson, Mrs. Bridges, Footman Edward and, of course, Rose, whom Actress Jean Marsh has made into the most fetching cockney sparrow since George Bernard Shaw detached a rib called Eliza Doolittle...
...happy few even as he chronicles their ineptitude, their folly in a world they never made. These are men, Snow seems to say, curiously out of touch, not only with their times but with their wives and their children and finally with themselves. Yet as he records the patrician drone of the House of Lords or the fatuousness of a garden party (with electric heaters), Snow notes other factors too: "Endurance, good sense, realism, a kind of courage...
...history, Dukakis went so far as to disclose that he buys his socks at Filene's basement for 89 cents a pair. Both candidates are aided by well-known names, Dukakis' running mate is Thomas P. ONeill, III, 30, son of the House Majority leader and the patrician Sargent is being supported by his cousin, Elliot Richardson. Sargent's pervasive TV personality may turn the tide, but Dukakis leads...