Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...intended victim, Grace Kelly is not required to do much more than look beautiful and vulnerable, and she accomplishes both with patrician distinction. The fun of Dial M lies in its duel of wits, and audiences may relish seeing Milland mowed down by superior intelligence rather than by a sawed-off shotgun...
Though at 63 Joe Welch has the manner of a Louisburg Square patrician, he comes from the plainest Midwestern pioneer stock. Both his parents were English-born. Father William Welch ran away to sea at 14, wandered the world for 15 years (including a three-month hitch with the British army during the Sepoy Mutiny of 1857), finally immigrated to his brother's' farm in Illinois and married the hired girl. William Welch was a simple man and good, but in his years at sea, he developed an abiding affection for the bottle. Martha Welch decided to remove...
...since its Roman hero himself spurned popularity. It is perhaps Shakespeare's least poetic major play as well; for Coriolanus, unlike Hamlet or Macbeth, lacks imagination and tragic awareness. But a major play it decidedly is, with a Roman clang and massiveness to its story of a proud patrician hero who is denied the consulate and then banished from the city for not truckling to the plebs, and who joins his former enemies in an expedition against Rome...
...elected to the Assembly from his own district, and his party as a whole considerably bettered its vote over the September general elections, he fell to the nationwide conservative swing to Konrad Adenauer. Scheduled to replace Brauer as mayor is his former executive assistant, Dr. Kurt Sieveking, 56. Patrician Sieveking, whose family name is the Hamburg equivalent of Lodge or Cabot in Boston, is currently West Germany's minister to Sweden...
...voters. In Illinois, Bill Stratton, another dark horse, had accomplished things that Adlai Stevenson had failed to get done (TIME, July 13). And in Massachusetts, Christian Archibald Herter, 58, a lean, blond giant (6 ft. 4½ in.) with the searching eyes of an intellectual, the manners of a patrician and the pithy record of a politician, was causing a stir that rippled far beyond the shores of Massachusetts Bay. For Herter, Tom Dewey had a succinct appraisal: "He's the cream of the bottle...