Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sharply defined figure of Harold Macmillan. He had the misfortune to become Prime Minister in time to help preside, in Churchill's phrase, "over the liquidation of the British Empire." Often photographed in hairy tweed knickerbockers while shooting in the Scotch Highlands, Macmillan projected an image of woebegone Toryism anachronistic in the postwar scene of swinging Britain. That this image was misleading could be seen from the first volume of his memoirs (TIME, Sept. 30, 1966) in which he emerged as a humorous and generous-minded man, sharply aware of the currents of history, and a man, moreover...
...smoking rooms at White's or the parlors of Belgravia, but right in the House of Commons last week that the new leader of the Conservative Party was chosen. He was Edward Heath, a man as uncharacteristic of traditional Toryism as the system of open, gentlemanly election by which he was selected. A hard-driving professional politician up from the ranks (see box), Heath edged out Reginald Maudling in a short, sharp contest that left the Conservatives more united than before-a legacy of outgoing leader Sir Alec Douglas-Home. Sir Alec's own selection by the Tories...
...party's feelings, discontent is deepest among hard-core Tories. By his brusque, humiliating dismissals of leading ministers, Mac the Knife violated the most sacred tenet of Toryism: party loyalty.* Said one former government minister last week: "The Tory Party is a peculiar, organic thing of which you're either wholly a part or else never really of it. Even a Tory leader may not really be of it-he can use and be used by the party for so long as he's required, and then he becomes expendable. That's what happened with Churchill...
...Pink Toryism. As the shock wore off, Britons began to see the method in Mac's massacre. Weeks ago, Harold Macmillan had concluded from the Tories' disquieting series of election reverses that Britain did not want a change of party so much as a change within the party. Cobwebbed Conservative policies and lackluster leaders have succeeded in alienating a large segment of the young, middle-class voters who swept the party into office eleven years ago in response to the forward-looking policies that were dubbed "pink Toryism." To woo them back, Macmillan plucked from his front...
...Savile Row, the "Golden Mile" made up of some 200 establishments on half a dozen streets in Mayfair. In a men's-club atmosphere of horsehair sofas, fireplaces, brass candelabras and rolltop desks, the shops breathe-as one historian noted appreciatively-"the fumes of privilege, of clubs, of Toryism." In keeping with the tradition that put a Savile Row uniform on Napoleon III when he mounted the throne of France, Hawes & Curtis recently finished a $900, gold-braided beauty for Thailand's King Bhumibol, as part of a 113-suit wardrobe. At Denman & Goddard's, cutters have...