Word: patricians
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...unexpectedly defeated for a second term as Governor by Democrat Joseph Teasdale in 1976. Now Bond is shining once again after beating Teasdale, 53% to 47%. As he did in 1976, Teasdale depicted himself as an advocate of the common man and hit hard at Bond's patrician upbringing (Deerfield-Princeton-University of Virginia...
...Harvard Steele describes in his early chapter differs vastly from the megalith today's students know. Big-name professors devoted time to undergraduates; patrician competition for acceptance to social clubs was not the exception but the rule; and students lacked the "social awareness" to rally at protests and demonstrations. Lippmann's Jewish heritage barred his entrance to most college groups and organizations. The Crimson blackballed him. But Lippmann gained recognition as one of the keenest minds of his class. To strengthen his grasp of the moral issues socialism involved, he pored through volumes of Fabian society tracts and Marxist literature...
...look like large pale dolls haunting an artificial landscape. Confidence came with his absorption of the grand manner. With access to the big houses, the young painter could see the work of Rubens, Van Dyck and Claude. He rapidly learned to deal with the social mask. Those pink, smooth, patrician egg faces, the men a little knobbly of jaw and hooded of eyelid, with their "cold pleasant stares" (as Henry James would say of the English gentleman) are emblems of sensibility and composure, not of emotion. Now and again a very slight hint of irony seems to intrude...
...week in a company with a seven-performance schedule does seem excessive. Even now, with a five-performance contract, scheduling is complex. At the same time, the Met management is faulted for its cold attitude toward its employees and for a lack of diplomacy in negotiations. "They are very patrician upstairs," says one singer wryly...
...mother Rose and play tennis with his sister-in-law Ethel. He will savor the world acclaim from papers and television about his convention speech, and he will probably eat more ice cream than he should and have an extra daiquiri or two. He will luxuriate in his patrician world far from the American deprived whom he has championed, a long distance from the middle class whose stresses he says he perceives. Ted Kennedy may at last be a true Kennedy, one of those depicted in the photographs, paintings and mementos that grace the family homes in Palm Beach...