Word: patricians
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...campaign has been a study of contrasting styles. The bespectacled Taft has a patrician manner, is cool and distant; he eschews personal contact, approaching a handshake as if it were a tarantula. After a recent factory speech, Taft started to leave and a foreman had to remind him to "shake hands with some of the employees, Bob." Rhodes, the burly and gregarious son of a coal miner, is a charming, indefatigable backslapper and campaigner...
...hoaxes. It is an occasion as bizarre and funny as the film's conclusion-in which a lady leaves a fortune to friends, with the proviso that they dissect her corpse and eat it. As always, the maestro's greatest strength is anecdotal. His account of a patrician husband and wife who commit suicide rather than submit to imprisonment is as affecting as the short tales of La Dolce Vita. His story of the adventures of a woman and the corpse of her husband is neoclassic black comedy...
...That assessment had better be right, because Pan Am needs a major new success. Almost as soon as it started flying from Key West to Havana in 1927, Pan Am became the high and mighty among U.S. air carriers. Patrician Boss Juan Trippe maintained what was virtually his own state department to negotiate landing rights with foreign governments; at home, he had the political clout of a board of directors that has always included more former high Government and military officers than that of probably any other U.S. company. Among the current crew: Cyrus Vance, Alfred Gruenther, William Scranton...
...outset, they told Lindsay it could not be done. Pilloried for allegedly caring only about blacks and Manhattan's Beautiful People, the handsome, patrician Lindsay lost the June Republican primary to an obscure state senator, John Marchi. The Democrats nominated their most conservative aspirant, Mario Procaccino, who seemed well suited to lead frustrated middle-income voters against Lindsay's ghetto-oriented liberalism...
Miller, a 36-year-old Princetonian with a patrician and liberal background going back to the Revolutionary War, hedged on his crackdown-on-pushers stance even more. Although reluctant to push a pro-pot platform, Miller did say that the possession part of the law-for pot-was unenforceable. He said that he favors devoting a good deal of money to the non-criminal type of home rehabilitation for people addicted to the harder stuff...