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Still, we are given a fair share of fresh insights into the motivations of Alger Hiss throughout the living nightmare of the HUAC accusations and the trials. For one thing, his father's originally incredulous attitude towards the charges, perceived by some as patrician arrogance, is cleared up by Tony Hiss--until the vote of the jury in the first perjury trial (8-4 for conviction) Alger Hiss honestly thought no one could take Chambers seriously. And more importantly, Hiss, we discover, had to face not only the immense pressure of the trials but also that of keeping his marriage...
...with the horn was not that elegantly patrician occupant of the Elysee Palace, President Valery Giscard d'Estaing (who is, after all, not even a Guallist, but a member of the small Independent Republican Party). The bugler was the impatient, youngish Guallist, Jacques Chirac, who only 3% months ago angrily quit as Premier because he felt that Giscard had failed to halt the march of the left in France. Now Chirac was issuing a call to arms that would have pleased De Gaulle: he announced the grand reformation of the moribund Guallist party, formed his battalions and declared...
...parlayed an infectious grin, native acumen and political apprenticeship with Democrats Estes Kefauver and Albert Gore into an upset primary victory. Now he stalks voters relentlessly, grasping hands, patting farmers' backs and children's heads, spouting a Carter-like populism and depicting the beleaguered Brock as a patrician far removed from the concerns of ordinary people...
...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...