Word: patricians
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Died. Louis Stephen St. Laurent, 91, Prime Minister of Canada from 1948 to 1957 and a symbol of national pride and achievement; in Quebec. A man of patrician and benevolent manner who was often referred to as "Uncle Louis" by his countrymen, St. Laurent reluctantly left a successful Quebec law practice in 1941 to become Minister of Justice in the wartime Liberal government of Mackenzie King. As his country's second French-Canadian Prime Minister, St. Laurent oversaw a period of unprecedented growth and expansion. Canada's gross national product -sparked by American investment-nearly doubled, Newfoundland became...
Ramrod-straight, sober-faced, patrician, calm: he was almost the Hollywood image of an American ambassador. For six exhausting years he exercised more authority than most of his diplomatic colleagues ever dreamed of possessing. Always immaculate, even in Saigon's long, humid afternoons, always self-possessed, even in the face of deliberate snubs from the South Viet Nam government, Ellsworth Bunker, for better or worse, was at the epicenter of the longest and most difficult war in American history...
After almost four decades at the helm, Eugene Ormandy at 73 commands an orchestra that remains a patrician marvel, even though Ormandy's interpretations occasionally tend to be more like glossy prints than the real music...
...central conflict of the play is a plebeian foray into patrician territory. Crystal Allen (Marie Wallace), a perfume clerk, seduces and steals the husband of Mary Haines (Kim Hunter). Since Mary is a pretty decent woman compared with her feline friends, audience sympathy gravitates to her. Crystal is a steely predator who wants her share of the spoils, but as an arriviste, she cannot keep her social footing. She is caught out in another liaison, and Mary gets her husband back. In effect, the lower orders have been chastised for their presumption...
...newly appointed U.S. Ambassador to Saigon rather resembles his predecessor-tall, spare, white-haired, with a patrician bearing that exudes authority. There the resemblance ends. While the retiring Ellsworth Bunker has a genial courtliness that enables him to get along with almost anyone, Graham Martin is aloof, tough and taciturn-so much so that he has alienated many people. Nonetheless, both friends and critics agree that Martin is well suited for the hard job ahead...