Word: dynasticism
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Mass migration is nothing new in European history. The Continent's religious, dynastic and economic upheavals have uprooted people for centuries: Eastern Jews to the West, French Huguenots to Germany, and, most recently, Spaniards, Portuguese and Italians to the factories of the north. Every wave of émigré...
Frost had caught just the spirit of the venture, with a confidence about the uses of power and ambition that now seems amazing. Kennedy took office with extraordinary energy and the highest hopes. He seemed in some ways the perfect American. As Historian Doris Kearns Goodwin points out, he exemplified...
Everyone lived ever after. The press called it "a storybook romance," but it was more clearly a dynastic marriage of the kind traditionally made for good, practical reasons by European nobility. In Rainier's case, the practicality was not hard to see. Rainier's Grimaldi clan dates its...
But Steinbrenner's money and methods have quickened a lot of the standard prejudices about the Yankees. They were always the Romans of baseball: triumphal, imperial. They were dynastic; they cherished a memory of the Ruth and the DiMaggio and the Mantle days. But there was rarely much charm...
To put it a bit more bluntly: highly underrated and disregarded Dunster-Mather downed the dynastic Quincy eleven in the House football championship game, 7-0, played yesterday in the Stadium.