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Abraham's problems began when he was attacked, 18 months after the publication of his book, by patrician Henry Turner of Yale. Turner, who has little or no use for Marxist history, wrote a testy review in the Political Science Quarterly. He charged that Abraham had rewritten quotations and selected only portions of source documents that suited his purposes...
BACH. THE UNACCOMPANIED CELLO SUITES (CBS Masterworks). Patrician readings by Yo-Yo Ma of the cello literature's most challenging test...
...into something new, and then photograph the results." The presence of the sofa in every picture imposes self-consciousness on the photos, becoming a big red photographic sic; even the most naturalistic portraits of Americans on the couch seem deliberately contrived artistic statements. The sofa, whether positioned in a patrician living room, balanced on an Alaskan canoe, or dumped on Rajneeshian haystack demands that the viewer look at the aesthetic and intellectual content of a medium that is often considered simple substitute for sight...
Bush's disparaging locker-room comments show an unbelievable lack of dignity. He and his wife, who also made offensive remarks, are supposedly "well bred" and "patrician." But when they talk, they use gutter language...
...With his patrician good looks and air of thoughtful intensity, his blend of Western rationalism and passionate nationalism, Nehru was an ideal-and idealistic-leader of the new India. He was cosmopolitan, commanding, charismatic. His interest in civil rights had been quickened by his friend and mentor Gandhi, his intellectual theories refined at Harrow and Cambridge. As Prime Minister, he ambitiously embarked upon a path of democratic socialism, hoping to bring industry, literacy and, above all, modernity to an India that was in many areas poverty stricken and backward. Abroad, as his own Foreign Minister, he pursued a policy...