Word: aristocrats
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Died. Manuel Prado Ugarteche, 78, twice (1939-45, 1956-62) President of Peru, a courtly aristocrat and banker, who during both of his administrations gave early, unwavering support to the U.S., first against Hitler, later by breaking diplomatic relations with Cuba's Castro, as wartime leader took impressive strides toward industrialization, and did much to stem an inflationary tide during his second term; of a heart attack; in Paris...
Stauffenberg was a Roman Catholic, an aristocrat, a family man, and a person of culture in the traditional German romantic, almost mystical mold. His Swabian antecedents were landowners and officials ennobled in Wurttem-berg for services to the state. He was regarded by military men, including a chief of staff of the Wehrmacht, as a "natural commander." Even in intellectual circles, he was recognized as having a peculiar distinction of spirit. His face mirrored both the mystic and the soldier. Although a Catholic, Stauffenberg found an added outlet for his private form of religion in the "circle of Stefan George...
...mechanical parts, has retaliated by only going through the motions. Even Laurence Senelick's lines, which he lets go with a luscoius roll, somehow land with a clunk. Bea Paipert makes a very funny cow of an old lady, Kathryn Walker gives a droll, nasal performance of a declining aristocrat, and Tom Jones is perfect as a timid schoolteacher. But Director George Hamlin's overall pace is funeral, and most of the performances lack snap. The audience, however, seemed to enjoy the same mechanical trick of "getting sick" five or six times...
Died. Fatima Jinnah, 74, spinster sister and confidante of Mohammed Ali Jinnah, longtime Pakistani nationalist and in 1947 his new country's first chief executive, a schoolmarmish aristocrat who in 1964 came out of a 16-year retirement following the death of her brother to oppose Mohammed Ayub Khan for the presidency, bitterly but unsuccessfully accusing the military leader of seeking to "scrap the constitution" and set up a dictatorship; of a heart attack; in Karachi...
...longer need tourists humble themselves before la grande indifférence that Parisians traditionally inflict on visitors. By the simple expedient of renting a lovely French aristocrat, the froideur turns to fun, and the surly city becomes all smiles and elegance...