Word: patricians
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...disheveled, Lowell presided with a grim conscience over American intellectual life and willingly intervened in politics, appearing in demonstrations against the Viet Nam War and campaigning for Eugene McCarthy. Norman Mailer, in The Armies of the Night, recalled him during the march on the Pentagon in 1967, "virile and patrician," with "a Cromwellian light...
...commencement last week to receive an honorary degree, and so was Federal Reserve Board Chairman Arthur Burns. When Burns' name was called, Carter did more than just join in the general applause, as he had for the others. He got up and walked to the podium with the patrician boss of the Fed. There, grinning broadly, the populist Chief Executive pointedly shook hands with the rock-ribbed Republican central banker and, clasping his shoulder, offered his congratulations...
...author is, of course, one of the leading members of the liberal Establishment. He is also a kind of patrician socialist who argues in his new book for public ownership of urban land, public auditors instead of boards of directors for corporations, and the gift of food, housing, health care, education and money to the poor. He has a pessimistic view of human nature, but it principally applies to the rich and powerful. "People of privilege," he writes, "will always risk their complete destruction rather than surrender any material part of their advantage." Even F.D.R., the Squire of Hyde Park...
FROM THESE various incidents, a picture of Saltonstall as a gentle patrician emerges. Personally, he is unquestionably kind, generous and honest. On policy questions, Saltonstall and Kennedy disagreed only rarely while in the Senate, and usually cooperated on legislation affecting their state. Saltonstall worked closely with Theodore Sorensen, Kennedy's top aide, while he was recovering from a back operation, and afterwards, Kennedy referred to the senior senator's dealings with "Senator Sorensen...
...later to the White House; his loss to Kennedy is at least party attributable to that. Saltonstall, for his part, seems to have achieved his positions more by accident than by design, although he clearly enjoyed a good political fight. What characterized both their careers, moreover, was a genuinely patrician sense of duty. They had an obligation to serve. But that obligation was to the nation, and national security abroad, rather than to domestic welfare. Neither was cold-hearted about the poor, the black, or the unemployed, but they certainly did not lead any fights to remedy social or economic...