Word: toryism
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...levelling principles winch men without character and without fortune in general possess." Virginia's Carter Braxton worried similarly about the "democratical" tendencies of New Englanders. Some men in the north, meantime, scorn the southerners for their dependence on slave labor. In all sections, there persists a powerful streak of Toryism. In the Congress itself are men like Pennsylvania's John Dickinson, who, though not a Tory, held out for reconciliation with England, arguing that the break was unnecessary, or at least too sudden...
...Great Society social engineering of the '60s has obviously left many Americans with a sour sense that such is not always the case -although others may argue that the reforms simply did not go far enough. In any case, the Journal, more in the spirit of 18th century toryism, will now use such words as revision and change -a more neutral vocabulary. Oliver Goldsmith caught the spirit with his couplet in The Traveller...
...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...