Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Nixon spoke of the "great civilizations of the past, subject to the decadence that eventually destroys the civilization." Nixon went on to speculate that "the U.S. is now reaching that period." Although he agrees with Nixon on hardly any other subject, Novelist Gore Vidal-a latter-day Juvenal whose patrician life-style is as celebrated in Rome as in New York-finds that in America, "Caesars are converging on the forum. There are storm warnings ahead...
THOMAS BOYISTON ADAMS, 65, treasurer of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in Boston, traces his ancestry to John Adams. An articulate Yankee patrician whose appearance and speech evoke the image of his famous ancestor, Adams notes that the founders of the nation "never believed they had all the answers. They believed there would be future enlightenment." He laments the erosion of that idea, the impatience with a governmental system that is constantly evolving. He points to periods in history where one or even two of the three branches of Government failed, but the other-most often the judiciary...
Died. Oliver J. Carter, 65, former chief justice of the U.S. District Court for Northern California and the man who presided, in a firm, folksy way, over the trial of Patricia Hearst; of a heart attack; in San Francisco. A Northern California patrician who was also a longtime Hearst family acquaintance, Carter won high marks for fairness and impartiality during the complicated trial, which found Patty guilty of bank robbery and felony possession of firearms...
...drive for the Democratic presidential nomination and his election victory over Herbert Hoover; armed with ample power and patronage as both national Democratic boss and Postmaster General, he masterminded an even bigger win for F.D.R. in 1936 against Alf Landon. After that, Old Pol Farley fell out with the patrician F.D.R. and his zealous New Dealer's, and in 1940 he quit his Cabinet and national party posts, suggesting that F.D.R.'s decision to run for an unprecedented third term had foreclosed his own ambitions for high elective office. Farley became head of Coca-Cola's foreign...
Like so many men with boundless power, personality and ego, Franklin D. Roosevelt had an eye for women. Not just any women, but tall, intelligent and impeccably well-bred travelers in his own social circles. He married his patrician cousin Eleanor in 1905, kept his dining tables and drawing rooms decorated with bright young women from Chestnut Hill and Tuxedo Park, and from 1913 until the day he died in 1945 carried on a secret but by now much-publicized affair with Lucy Mercer, a daughter of Maryland gentry and for a time Eleanor's personal secretary...