Word: patricians
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...already do a double flip rarely lives near one of the dozen or so shrines where the top coaches preside: either a family relocates to a place like Colorado Springs or Lakewood, Ohio, or the parents make boarding arrangements. Contrary to common perception, the sport is not patrician, at least not since World War II. Often parents must take two jobs to meet costs...
Ford, for example, a company traditionally more comfortable with the patrician styles of Ford's own family princes, had never seen the likes of its new chairman. Trotman has forged his career by going against the patrician grain at every opportunity. As a product manager at British Ford in the late 1950s, he made his first mark by taking on the senior engineers to develop its Cortina, which became one of its most successful product introductions ever. Raised in Scotland, the son of a carpet layer and upholsterer and the only non-college graduate to hold the top position, Trotman...
...most controversial change (curiously, since nobody spends much time there) is in the Lincoln Sitting Room, recast from fairly boring Reagan-Bush conventionality to Victorian overload. In the family's personal rooms, the palette shifts to pleasant pastels, prompting one visitor to observe that the Bushes' patrician threadbare-and-dog- hair style had given way to a less inviting, don't-touch tidiness. Perhaps that can be remedied by time, wear and Socks...
...places on this campus better represent the patrician ideals of Old Harvard than the final clubs. While most of us would like to dispel the image of Harvard as a stratified old-boy network, these stalwarts work to keep that image a reality...
...Clemente (or the Western White House, as it was known) indulging in Californian luxuriance; Ronald Reagan visited his ranch in California faithfully each August, where he rode and cleared brush and chopped wood; in Kennebunkport, George Bush raced around in his cigarette boat and tended his East Coast patrician roots. When some of these Presidents spent many weeks away from Washington at these August sanctuaries, only editorialists, not the public, seemed to object. Absent from this list is Jimmy Carter, whose peanut farm left no trace on the citizenry's imagination; after he left office, however, Carter did have built...