Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there have been times when he had hardly any audience at all. The Moviegoer is the subject of one of the publishing industry's favorite heartwarmers. The firm of Knopf evidently thought it had bought something more like Lanterns on the Levee, the classic clarion call to patrician Southern virtue written by Percy's uncle, William Alexander. The publisher did not think enough of the nephew's effort to submit it for the National Book Awards, but it won anyway, after a shaggy-dog sequence of events that began when the late A.J. Liebling picked the book...
...hysteria. No outsider knows Mao's personal role, but Western analysts generally assume that he is probably overseeing the army's domestic reorganization program and that his trust in Chou is almost total. At any rate, both the army and Mao seem willing to give the suave patrician a free hand in the game at which he is an acknowledged master: diplomacy...
Steppingstone. The patrician Russell became increasingly a loner. After his unsuccessful bid for the presidency, he refused the leadership of his party in the Senate. Instead he pressed for the selection of Lyndon B. Johnson. Russell never married-he had been too busy with politics, he explained-and he usually avoided capital parties, staying in his Washington apartment reading history or the Congressional Record. "I came up here with a country-boy idea that you had to be polite and attend every party you were invited to," he would say. "That liked to killed me the first year...
...walls of the tiny study in his modest home in Santiago's patrician Providencia district, Dr. Salvador Allende has hung the pictures of his revolutionary heroes. There, last week, surrounded by photographs of Lenin, Ho Chi Minh, Fidel Castro and Che Guevara-as well as one of Eleanor Roosevelt-Allende talked with TIME Correspondent David...
...that is not the book's nature or function. It is the poet's mind, not his work, that is on display. Auden's mind, seen through his reading, shows exceptionally broad learning and intellectual tolerance. The man is also quirky, traditionalist and playful with a patrician fondness for the recondite-whether in the lore of language or nature. His compilation belies the term "commonplace" with properly Audenesque irony...