Word: patricians
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...perhaps nothing can be done about class bias in selection doctors given the present patrician control of the medical community, what then...
...been endorsed by virtually every member of the Conservatives' shadow Cabinet, as well as by hundreds of local Tory associations across Britain. But the results of the secret ballot were a shock: maverick M.P. Margaret Thatcher (see box) received 130 votes to 119 for Heath and 16 for patrician M.P. Hugh Fraser (there were eleven abstentions). After consulting with friends and political aides, Heath announced that he would not be a candidate in the second and third rounds of voting-required because Mrs. Thatcher failed by nine votes to get an absolute majority...
Mighty Chain. The greatest pressure for change has come from Willie. Physically akin to his grandfather, with piercing eyes, patrician nose and blond hair, young Hearst says that he has always been fascinated by the once mighty chain of 32 dailies. "As a kid I would go to San Simeon [the vast Hearst estate] and groove on the whole vision. I really admired my grandfather. What a mover! I decided you had to have money to do these things, and I realized the money came from the papers...
Mother Seton was indeed very American. Born in New York City two years before the Declaration of Independence, she came from a patrician colonial family, kin of the Roosevelts and the Van Cortlandts. A pretty, vivacious girl, at 19 she married William Seton, 25, son of a wealthy importer. On a trip to Italy in 1803, young Seton died of tuberculosis, leaving his wife nearly penniless and with five children to support. Friends in Italy talked to her about Catholicism, and in 1805, upon her return to the U.S., she shocked her Episcopal family and friends by becoming a Roman...
...happy few even as he chronicles their ineptitude, their folly in a world they never made. These are men, Snow seems to say, curiously out of touch, not only with their times but with their wives and their children and finally with themselves. Yet as he records the patrician drone of the House of Lords or the fatuousness of a garden party (with electric heaters), Snow notes other factors too: "Endurance, good sense, realism, a kind of courage...