It is that the new meritocratic aristocracy has come to look like every other aristocracy.
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Equality of opportunity has produced a new meritocratic aristocracy that has all the aloofness of the old aristocracy with none of its sense of noblesse oblige.
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" John Bingham, an Ohio representative and the lead author of the 183th Amendment, which included the positive guarantee of birthright citizenship, said that under the terms of the 15th Amendment, "an aristocracy of property may be established; an aristocracy of intellect may be established; an aristocracy of sect may be established.
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The aristocracy aren't doing too much talking about music though.
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Then he appointed some wizards and that was the aristocracy.
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"I share your poverty," declaims this wealthy son of aristocracy.
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Henrietta Street was built for the aristocracy, he assures us.
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Fifty years ago, it was the home of the aristocracy.
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The aristocracy clamored for invitations to Elliott's Hertfordshire estate, Hartsbourne.
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"As our society has become more meritocratic, we've simply replaced an aristocracy based on title, class, race and gender with a new and equally persistent aristocracy based on genes, education and parenting," Pearlstein continued.
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In a society founded on monarchy and aristocracy, it was revolutionary.
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Neither were they soccer aristocracy like Manchester United or Bayern Munich.
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She comes from the aristocracy, while Edward is strictly working-class.
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Unlike Markle, however, Diana was born a member of the aristocracy.
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On her father's side, the family was descended from German aristocracy.
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Westeros must enter a new age where humanity, rather than aristocracy, rules.
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He befriended members of the British aristocracy and the US political elite.
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Nabokov came from aristocracy and liked to live in well-appointed hotels.
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His family were Sicilian aristocracy from Ragusa, who served as Habsburg officials.
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At the end of the day, a law firm is an aristocracy.
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The aristocracy once sniggered at the nouveau riche of the industrial revolution.
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"We fought a revolution to get away from aristocracy," he noted, cheerfully.
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On Monday, Dior, French fashion aristocracy, brought its court to Marrakesh, Morocco.
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Everybody here is a star, from the local aristocracy to the postman.
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But Audiard was nonetheless raised in a 20th-century Parisian cultural aristocracy.
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In the decades following the Civil War, a proud "colored aristocracy" emerged.
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They responded to the opposition charge that the Constitution would promote aristocracy.
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"Those factories were channeling unimaginable wealth to a growing aristocracy," the narration says.
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Check. Just like the dissolute aristocracy, apparently, he "gets married all the time".
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Kwan's book follows the dastardly attempts of Asia's aristocracy to scare her off.
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By contrast, Alexis de Tocqueville was a proud member of the French aristocracy.
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Ivan the Terrible terrorised the boyars, a high-ranking aristocracy in medieval times.
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Nowadays we don't have an aristocracy of the game, just a middle class.
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"The 9.9 Percent Is the New American Aristocracy," by Matthew Stewart, The Atlantic.
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Written to amuse the Bourbon aristocracy, "Los Elementos" is now for everyone. ♦
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Calling out New York City's aristocracy is in vogue, even among the aristocrats.
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At this time in Chinese history, the aristocracy is falling out of favor.
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The experience of being with the aristocracy in those days was very special.
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To work for Ferrari is to be part of the best aristocracy possible.
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Her family was Georgian aristocracy (the current president of Georgia is a cousin).
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During the reign of Louis XIV, French aristocracy were exempt from paying taxes.
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Not only is American democracy an aristocracy, but it can also be quite stupid.
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It's not that Markovtiz wants to take us back to a time of aristocracy.
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He wanted to bring an elective monarchy and restore non-titled aristocracy to America.
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Lenin liquidated Russia's Tsarist aristocracy, the bourgeoisie and the affluent peasants known as kulaks.
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A future governed by a hereditary aristocracy composed of the progeny of today's billionaires.
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It flies in the face of the ideals on which America was founded—the rejection, as Thomas Jefferson put it, of the "artificial aristocracy" based on birth, which had corrupted Britain, in favour of a "natural aristocracy" based on "virtue and talents".
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The Italian aristocracy was dissolved in 1946 when the Kingdom of Italy became a republic.
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Mary Shelley (as she soon became) was born into the radical aristocracy of her day.
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Antoinette is raised to fear the emancipated black slaves who resent the crumbling white aristocracy.
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Unfortunately, it won't be the environmental aristocracy in D.C. that gets stuck paying the bill.
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She imagined it as a symbol of America's renunciation of conquest, empire, and pompous aristocracy.
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In Britain, coming from the heart of the repressed aristocracy, it represents a major shift.
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Here's everything we know about the property tycoon and single dad descended from Italian aristocracy.
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"The cult of intelligence is a secret fraternity of the American political aristocracy," they wrote.
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And yet these characters cling to an aristocracy that ceased to exist a century ago.
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There are no idle rich or landed aristocracy to draw off the wealth of the nation.
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They both began as a working-class looks but morphed into suit patterns for the aristocracy.
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Still, lodges permitted a degree of commingling between the aristocracy and educated professionals rarely seen before.
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Fortunately our aristocracy is already safe thanks to the experimental project you saw in the video.
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Aristocracy Leaving Town All those who are able to do so are now leaving St. Petersburg.
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The southern aristocracy broke the back of southern populism in the late 19th century over race.
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His policy prescriptions, which seek to empower working class Americans over America's aristocracy, make them nauseous.
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THE HUSBAND HUNTERS American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy By Anne de Courcy Illustrated.
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When that aristocracy threw its support behind secession in defense of slavery, Johnson loudly, proudly dissented.
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Allow the social forces that created this aristocracy to continue their work, and embrace the label.
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And black women have, of course, married African aristocracy for millenniums and continue to do so.
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The United States is not yet a country with a hereditary aristocracy of wealth and power.
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The aristocracy is less polite, but its members usually express their impolitesse with silence and exclusion.
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After a while, they begin yearning for the glamorous, immoral ways of the aristocracy they overthrew.
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"Aristocracy doesn't have space for anyone being different or unique or having opposite opinions," she said.
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The entitled aristocracy is losing sway as new class structures allow self-made men to emerge.
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The wolf's carcass was hauled back to the capital and the aristocracy declared the beast slayed.
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"Surgeons entered culture and literature as High Victorian heroes, and they also entered the aristocracy," Barnett writes.
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" The author Julian Fellowes's first stab at the English aristocracy was the Robert Altman film "Gosford Park.
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Many people think the very custom of tipping is a demeaning remnant from the age of aristocracy.
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But that doesn't mean that the two-time Oscar-nominee is officially a member of the aristocracy.
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Everything is now casual, because the new aristocracy of talent enforces all the conformity that is needed.
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Xi was born into revolutionary aristocracy and came of age in the tumult of Mao's Cultural Revolution.
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We aren't set up for parity, per se, but a more competitive aristocracy is around the corner.
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"Pro rata, there are no more idle people among the aristocracy than among ordinary people," he said.
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He just kept promoting this completely unqualified young guy higher and higher in British nobility and aristocracy.
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Anti-plutocrat fevers come and go, but the trappings of American aristocracy are always in style somewhere.
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It was supposed to foster equality, but it has led to great inequality and a new aristocracy.
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The same aristocracy that finally held me in high regard would boot me out of my palace.
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Senators have not conspired to make themselves a permanent aristocracy or make seditious treaties with foreign powers.
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He can now afford a greater suggestion of the aristocracy that Albrecht tries at first to hide.
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There's a Marie Antoinette-before-the-guillotine strain of lost aristocracy running through many collections this season.
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After all, our founders were rebelling against the British king and aristocracy, against inherited wealth and position.
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A beaded black doll has arms and legs that are made from porcelain figures of white aristocracy.
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For many years, the N.C.A.A. Division I men's hockey tournament was a celebration of the sport's aristocracy.
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Mr. Snow was born to wealthy art world aristocracy — the de Menils — and an impeccable uptown pedigree.
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The English people watched their country swiftly cycle through political chapters of tyranny, oligarchy, democracy, and aristocracy.
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They often wanted restorations—of monarchies, of the power of the clergy, of the status of the aristocracy.
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In the West, equestrianism tends to symbolize power, aristocracy, and liberty — all privileges historically denied to black Americans.
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The 27-year-old, who is a member of British aristocracy, is not in line to the throne.
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However, "middle class" and "bourgeois" allow, at least rhetorically, for the existence of an upper class, an aristocracy.
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As the success of "Downton Abbey" displayed, there's a global fascination with the British royal family and aristocracy.
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Brill argues that reformers ended up creating a new aristocracy even more entrenched than the one it supplanted.
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But if the Red Aristocracy keeps rising, China's politics may regress all the way back to medieval times.
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As the Plebeians head toward defeat, strife among powerful oligarchs within the Red Aristocracy will take center stage.
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Unlike Europe, America wasn't bogged down by the legacy of feudalism, nor did it have a hereditary aristocracy.
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Are we now a county comprised of an upper class — an aristocracy — and a lower class in poverty.
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"The aristocracy is not noble, but evil," fumed Tomas Fitzel of Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg, a local radio station.
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Unless you're the Rolling Stones mainlining heroin amid debauched French aristocracy , you might as well gloss over it.
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Every country has its national pastimes, but the English aristocracy codified and exported theirs to Britain's colonies and allies.
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However, the 27-year-old, who is a member of British aristocracy, is not in line to the throne.
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Chaim Weizman was another practitioner, allowing the British aristocracy their fantasy that "world Jewry" lurked behind his Zionist efforts.
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John Taylor was founded in 1864 in Cannes, as the Riviera became a popular destination for the British aristocracy.
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As a result of all his partying, Benedict was, to put it lightly, disliked by members of the aristocracy.
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Effie's feminine fashion symbolizes an ineffectual and "unnatural" aristocracy; in contrast, the proletarian Katniss loves and understands the woods.
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Princess Eugenie's sister, Princess Beatrice, recently got engaged to a property tycoon descended from Italian aristocracy, Edoardo Mapelli Mozzi.
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She scouted them carefully, paid for plastic surgery if needed, and ultimately hoped to marry them off to aristocracy.
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The British aristocracy has always been good at suckling on the capital of others: just look at the Astors.
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So did this "aristocracy" composed of financial, information and knowledge workers who rose to success by talent and merit.
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He compares information access to the aristocracy of the Middle Ages or worker's rights in the first Industrial era.
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Such a situation is unusual for a country that has long prided itself on not having a formal aristocracy.
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A secretive clerical aristocracy designs a church governance system that minimizes transparency and accountability for American crimes against Americans.
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We remember that it was a gay, bourgeois Jew who best portrayed the French aristocracy, and not the reverse.
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Cosgrove Harden insisted that we get four copies of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World" and talk it over.
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The quasi-aristocracy of the WASP upper class has been replaced by a "meritocracy" of a more varied elite.
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Bush, who was "part of a New England aristocracy that dated its direct ancestry to the Mayflower," according to Page.
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Some argue that the American elite is functionally an old-fashioned aristocracy that owes its income to nepotism and opportunism.
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They technically aren't members of the aristocracy, like a Duke or Earl (think Lord Grantham in Downton Abbey) would be.
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Bush, who was "part of a New England aristocracy that dated its direct ancestry to the Mayflower," according to Page.
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This resort was the summer playground of the czar and the aristocracy during the last gilded decades of the empire.
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An older aristocracy might have been short on brains, but at least had scars and medals honorably won in battle.
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Gray, a scion of Irish aristocracy, spent most of her life in France, where she died in 30212, age 98.
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It's affirmative action for the aristocracy, although it's never referred to or criticized as a betrayal of the meritocratic ideal.
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It was another historian, Nicolas Tackett, who recently explained why the aristocracy was finally done in, and why so quickly.
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Meanwhile, the private foundation is as close as we come to Downton Abbey and the landed aristocracy in this country.
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But the idea that the lost aristocracy might still exist in you, in me, in somebody, is a powerful one.
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The American "fool pied piper" leads more Italian rats toward Ellis Island as the cheering European aristocracy rejoices in the background.
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For them, the ideal of meritocracy is flawed and must be replaced either by radical egalitarianism or a return to aristocracy.
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Walls are decorated with fashionable art, rather as the aristocracy used to hang a Canaletto or Rembrandt in the drawing room.
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His Instagram is a perfect, calculated blend between a Wes Anderson movie and the old-timey image of eccentric British aristocracy.
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"There is a kind of renaissance of an economic aristocracy," said Ola Pettersson, chief economist at the Swedish Trade Union Confederation.
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Ann becomes an equally monstrous symbol of the selfish, out-of-touch aristocracy that actively enjoys spitting on everyone below them.
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It's a populace metal, and knowing the Oscars' devotion to wealth, nepotism, and self-conceived faux aristocracy unintentionally explains its banishment.
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He was an avid reader of The Economist, while publicly dismissing it as the "European organ of the aristocracy of finance".
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Liberals, who decry entrenched privilege at home, seem strangely OK with a British aristocracy that conveys titles and estates through bloodlines.
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In the 1950s Michael Young coined the word "meritocracy" to describe a new ruling elite, nastier than an aristocracy or plutocracy.
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Băile Herculane — and the Băile Neptun spa — was a favorite destination among members of the Roman Empire aristocracy and Austrian royalty.
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The tattered remnants of aristocracy in the family who perhaps owned, perhaps no longer own, the manor farm by the river?
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Convenience would make available to the general population the kind of freedom for self-cultivation once available only to the aristocracy.
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Once the seat of the country's aristocracy, the Savoys, the city still bears the impress of the family's stiff, uncompromising dignity.
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A diversity of accents within the Monarchy, and wider society, reveals that education and eloquence aren't owned by the British aristocracy.
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Tolstoy was a master of juxtaposition, and his novel oscillates between the ugliness of battle and the blissful ignorance of aristocracy.
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They differ from conservatives because they assert that aristocracy and hierarchy, indeed all concentrations of power, tend to become sources of oppression.
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Before then, Europe's ruling houses had been importing porcelain from China at scandalous prices, making porcelain an exclusive delight of the aristocracy.
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Speaks with an affected accent as if he was aristocracy, even if his family is firmly rooted in bourgeoise, small-town Jutland.
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Can it be that the aristocracy of for-profit political consultants now also has captured the technology strategy of the Democratic Party?
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In some ways he was too grand: the Old Etonian married into the aristocracy and has taken to shooting in his retirement.
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Admissions scandal reveals 'aristocracy masquerading as a meritocracy' These kinds of letters are standard in white collar cases, according to the official.
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Conrad, Ms Jasanoff writes, "belonged to the last generation of seafarers who worked primarily on sailing ships", which he called "the aristocracy".
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Have the people who worked or innovated their way to the top used their advantages to engineer what amounts to an aristocracy?
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Building a political aristocracy is not conservative, but it has been building on both sides of the aisle for nearly a century.
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In one, she's dressed in the 1700s Georgian style, whitened skin, with an elaborate hairstyle popular among the aristocracy of the time.
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She looked up sharply, with a face totally different to the one she'd been using to discuss British aristocracy and Agatha Christie.
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These exquisite paintings are in the public trust, and an artistic tradition once reserved for the aristocracy belongs to all of us.
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"I want to create China's Sotheby's, and I want to recreate China's cultural aristocracy," he told a Chinese newspaper two years ago.
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Grimaldi and most clowns of that time were able to poke fun directly at the monarchs and aristocracy without fear of consequences.
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Many of the human characters are rich and social, some with "new money" and others with roots in the old Southern aristocracy.
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He was born into political aristocracy, the son of a revolutionary who followed Mao into Beijing after the Communist Party took power.
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"The company quickly moved upmarket, into the aristocracy, and became known as the travel agents to the British Empire," Mr. Brendon said.
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" Asked why she might expect such an entrance, the woman said, "She just seems like the epitome of spoiled, beautiful British aristocracy.
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The Metropolitan Opera's lone contemporary production this season is an adaptation of Buñuel's 1962 film about the Spanish aristocracy, The Exterminating Angel.
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WILLIAM GLADSTONE dominated 19th-century British politics and helped shift government away from the preserve of the aristocracy to something approaching a meritocracy.
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For example, democracy might transfer power from the old aristocracy to an all-powerful central state, thereby reducing individuals to helpless, isolated atoms.
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" Writing on their wedding website ahead of the nuptials, the royal couple described their romance as "Old World aristocracy met New World charm.
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Just take Missy (Denise Gough), Colette's lover in the latter half of the film, and a real historical figure of the French aristocracy.
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Since its establishment in 1692, the core of Coutts' business has been looking after the wealth of Britain's aristocracy, landed gentry and celebrities.
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Unlike Tsipras, who rose to power on a wave of anti-establishment sentiment and anger towards the EU, Mitsotakis represents Greek political aristocracy.
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Early democracy was progressive in overturning the rule of aristocracy and monarchy, but it excluded voting rights for huge swathes of the population.
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But it "still inspires respect in this deeply hierarchical country where the aristocracy is venerated despite rapid social change," according to the Guardian.
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Legend has it that Roman god Hercules and members of the Roman Empire aristocracy once bathed in the mineral waters of Băile Herculane.
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They created a whole new class of millionaires called the Shoddy Aristocracy because they weren't old money, but they were brand new money.
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She was expected to marry into the aristocracy, though it was clear, even from a young age, that she would outwit her destiny.
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In America, freed from ties to monarchy or aristocracy, they tried to cast in amber the ideals they believed animated the nation's founding.
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In the process, they popularized the luxury picnic hamper with ready-to-eat provisions and expanding the consumption of tea beyond the aristocracy.
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They cling to a faded Southern aristocracy whose benefits — of alleged white superiority, and moral and intellectual supremacy — trickled down to ordinary whites.
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"There was an aristocracy of sexuality, an elite that was united in putting forth new attitudes and behavior toward sex," Mr. Verdrager said.
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Originally, historians believed that it was the aristocracy and political leaders he alienated with his policies and partnerships that led to his demise.
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This lineage has enabled the Larijani brothers to build close ties with the clerical aristocracy and receive important leadership positions in the regime.
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Even within the expensive world of equestrian sport, dressage stands apart for the aristocracy of its ideals and the wealth of its participants.
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A Christmas Prince: The One That's Like Downton Abbey There's always the Downton Abbey version of moving the story of the monied aristocracy along.
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" But although co-organizer Glass is "totally against everything the royal family stand for—inequality, aristocracy, empire," he's also a self-confessed "soppy git.
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Sometimes they're deployed as stand-ins for the cruel and privileged aristocracy, others for the marginalized, driven to the shadows under threat of violence.
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These people, the aristocracy and the oil magnates and the hidden movers and shakers behind the curtains of existence, are concerned about climate change.
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Historically a racing track and haunt of the capital's old aristocracy, it came to host football matches at the turn of the 20th century.
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In 22012 Nikolai Patrushev, then head of the FSB, the KGB's successor, described his servicemen as a new aristocracy and men of the gosudar.
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But according to The Guardian, the title "still inspires respect in this deeply hierarchical country where the aristocracy is venerated despite rapid social change."
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On the ground Mosley gathered a strange mix of supporters, from respected politicians to racist cranks, from members of the aristocracy to retired sportsmen.
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Her family's iconic fashion house, J. Mendel, was founded in St. Petersburg in the 1870s and was the official furrier to the Russian aristocracy.
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Perhaps it would set his mind at ease to know a little more about the House of Windsor and the British aristocracy in general.
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From day one of his rule, his decrees as emperor were viewed as treasonous by the Russian aristocracy and military class, which alienated him.
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Born soon after the French Revolution, Tocqueville was haunted by the question of why Britain, with its mighty aristocracy, was spared such an upheaval.
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The aristocracy robbed and extorted for centuries, tweeted Kathrin Vogler, an MP for Die Linke, adding that aristocrats are lucky Germany is not France.
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Blood feuding, both in Scotland and in Westeros, evokes images of bloodthirsty men of the aristocracy, eager to exact retribution for slain family members.
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And while she may not have projected sex appeal, she did reek of aristocracy, or at least her name, Astor, smacked of the manor.
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Thieves of the Wood (Netflix) Charismatic highwayman Jan de Lichte leads the oppressed in a revolt against the corrupt aristocracy of 260th-century Flanders.
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Her Bachelor's thesis at Harvard was about the last remnants of the French aristocracy, and how they clung to aged decorum despite the changing times.
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His journey from schizophrenic peasant to erotic attaché to the Russian aristocracy unfolds in the opulent, crumbling interior of the fully-operating Neo-Gothic church.
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Brushing shoulders with biz aristocracy, I would network, collaborate, serve spades of bullshit, have a blast, and become the face of tomorrow in the process.
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But it is unlikely to revive its posh Japanese maker, Honma, which calls itself "golf's aristocracy", presumably because it crafts the world's most expensive clubs.
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That means that unlike the British aristocracy, Italian titles aren't officially recognized and don't come with special de jure privileges like land or political seats.
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If only we could replace the forces of aristocracy, oligarchy, and corruption with a genuine meritocracy, then we would have a just and equal society.
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At far right is a sofa on which Akhmatova lounges in a kind of domestic exile, a Chekhovian model of aristocracy in twilight, in Leningrad.
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This is very convenient for Sanders and others on the left — a group which now appears to include the entire aristocracy of the Democratic Party.
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That is the kind of policy that will ensure our government represents the average person, rather than becoming a hereditary aristocracy of wealth and power.
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What makes the order most unusual is that its local sheikh is a woman: the former Philippa de Menil, 69, part of Texas oil aristocracy.
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Amid the long postwar economic boom, the capital was a crossroad of starlets and celebrity chasers, cardinals and cafe society, decaying aristocracy and growing entrepreneurship.
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Invented in the mid-19th century as a hunting hat for the English aristocracy, the bowler hat eventually became part of a city businessman's uniform.
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Every society in history has had an elite, and what is an aristocracy but an elite that has put some care into making itself presentable?
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The type of youth, male or female, who had the time to pursue sports, travel, dancing and drinking, was almost exclusively part of the aristocracy.
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At the time the play was written, the Russian aristocracy was in twilight, the serfs had been emancipated, swaths of the taiga were being deforested.
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After the Napoleonic Wars ended in 2600, the French aristocracy drove demand for the luxurious adornments that were just starting to be produced in Calais.
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Rationalizing agriculture toward more efficient farming choices requires that the government take on the landed aristocracy by removing subsidies and charging for excessive water use.
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The local Palestinian aristocracy, the big families of Jerusalem, emerged as leaders of the Palestinian national movement, which was suddenly being confronted by Jewish migration.
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Aside from his policy particulars, Mr. Sanders has been explicit in his broader aims to restrain a homegrown aristocracy that inherits entrenched power and money.
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Whereas continental conservatives might die in the ditch to protect the landed aristocracy or the established church, the Tories embrace change in order to manage it.
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Though we've come a long way from aristocracy-only hallowed halls of academia, the pendulum seems as if it's beginning to swing back in that direction.
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Though the aristocracy of the Heian period [794-1185] lies so far from the world of today, your rollicking romance still brings it alive for us.
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The party of the landed aristocracy succeeded in absorbing not just factory owners but enough factory workers to stay competitive in the age of mass production.
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The second largest cryptocurrency, called Ethereum, should adopt this sort of "crypto-aristocracy" next year — but until it's implemented, it's impossible to tell whether it'll work.
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The trailer – scored, as usual, by a gritty rock anthem – shows Tommy (Cillian Murphy) leading his gang of Peaky Blinders against the rapidly encroaching British aristocracy.
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"She doesn't like the aristocracy anymore," says costar Julie Montagu, who married the Earl of Sandwich to become the Lady of Mapperton estate in Dorset, England.
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But if Warren Buffett ever wants to feel like audiophile aristocracy, I'm confident the MSB Select system will live up to his (or anyone's) highest expectations.
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By then he was one of France's most celebrated and best-paid artists and had a clientèle that included Catherine the Great and the Russian aristocracy.
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Can the aristocracy now contribute bribes or collect extortion payments and claim a tax deduction or a tax exemption if you route them through a foundation?
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This was a violent, militant rebellion that killed hundreds of thousands of Americans in an effort to preserve a white aristocracy that enslaved millions of people.
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He was criticized for depicting his mistress not in the finest formal dresses of the aristocracy, but one down, and that was thought of as terrible.
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The adaptation set a new standard for "epic," capturing all the passion and tragedy of Napoleon's clash against the Russian aristocracy in its seven-hour sprawl.
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The structures that divided the aristocracy, the gentry, and the working class started to crumble, although older generations grasped at those social designations with wizened hands.
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The ensuing major shortage of labour, however, had a lasting impact: It shifted some power to labour (peasants and serfs) away from capital (the landed aristocracy).
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Of all the real-life restaurateurs, athletes and hedge-fund aristocracy who've appeared on this show, none made me laugh harder at their sheer delightful audacity.
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Meanwhile, the town expectantly prepares for the return of a scion of its long-absent aristocracy from Argentina, hoping that he will bring prosperity with him.
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Warner spent over a decade building the mansion and, unlike other movie moguls of the era, didn't give it a fancy name to emulate European aristocracy.
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And that rat race was far from over, at least if graduates wanted to maintain their, and their children's, place in the "new aristocracy" of merit.
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He hoped the Senate would serve as a republican analogue of Britain's upper chamber, protecting the states as the House of Lords protected the British aristocracy.
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The 225 wedding weekend of Getty heir Joseph Getty and jewelry designer Sabine Ghanem included a Liaisons Dangereuses party in which guests themselves dressed like French aristocracy.
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Like St Petersburg, Charleston, the festival's base, was once home to a storied aristocracy, members of which flocked to the city from their estates for grand balls.
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Passi de Preposulo's father, Alberto Passi de Preposulo, even goes by the title of "Count," although the Italian aristocracy is not longer recognized by the Italian government.
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But Benedict IX wasn't the average party boi the aristocracy believed him to be; he was more like party monster Michael Alig, cunning and even allegedly murderous.
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The explosion of such outfits has made Carnival, which was once largely staged by the aristocracy for the amusement of the hoi polloi, an increasingly participatory event.
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It is no surprise, then, that for the past century the American aristocracy and their political servants have dedicated enormous energy to impeding, corralling, and destroying it.
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But after French revolutionaries toppled the aristocracy in 1789, the new French government decided to revolutionize weights and measures, replacing the grave with the much-loved gram.
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The terrace is in the district of St. James's, the wealthiest corner of London's West End, which was developed during the 19th century for the British aristocracy.
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Its opponent: the defiant state of California, whose "lawless open border radicals" now apparently rank alongside the slave-owning aristocracy and other civic villains of American history.
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Back then, many of its patrons and players were members of the Indian aristocracy, sons of maharajas and nawabs from the beating heart of the British Empire.
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The term "meritocracy" was Young's own coining, and he chose it to denote a new aristocracy based on expertise and test-taking instead of breeding and titles.
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Wallace and Gail MacColl: A fascinating book about the wave of American heirs who married into the impoverished British aristocracy in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
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Either way, the dish has nothing to do with royalty, even if it may evoke the low American aristocracy of hotel guests, boarding schools and heavy silver.
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Mr. Garaio Esnaola's choreography puts a powerful contemporary spin on Molière's comedy, which tells of a pompous, bourgeois gentleman who longs to be accepted by the aristocracy.
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He produced "The Undatables," a documentary series about people with disabilities trying to find love, and commissioned "Country House Rescue," about the fading aristocracy in crumbling estates.
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Alexis de Tocqueville blamed the French Revolution in part on the literal physical distance between an aristocracy pulled into Versailles and the rural France they left behind.
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My family was horrified, which I thought was rather funny—that a not highly distinguished New York couple should disapprove of titled members of the French aristocracy.
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It's clear that Miyabe was interested in appropriating the world of Ico to tell a relatively bog-standard fantasy tale of aristocracy, conflict, magic, demons, and gods.
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The Anglo-Saxon aristocracy was stripped of its assets, and many of its members suffered the humiliation of being forced to work on land they had once owned.
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"We're in a very egalitarian society where there is a pocket of resistance that actually behaves like an aristocracy," said Pierre Verdrager, a sociologist who has studied pedophilia.
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When I met her in the early '80s, I had the impression that she represented a very contemporary irony about American aristocracy, which is almost impossible to define.
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Nearly two decades later Cyprian Clamorgan's showier "The Coloured Aristocracy of St Louis" introduced readers to his mansion-owning neighbours who sent their children to school in Europe.
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Angela was a feminist, grateful to be liberated from the tyranny of pleasing; Ken was a socialist, so couldn't regret the end of feudalism or of the aristocracy.
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The Radical Republicans who drafted the Fourteenth Amendment hoped to build a truly multiracial democracy on the ashes of the slaver aristocracy that had lost the Civil War.
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Concentration of wealth and political power in corporations and a new "aristocracy" has advantaged some, but has reduced opportunity and made our economic system less fair for many.
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Giacomo Puccini, Ca. 1908 "A piece of paper recording the exact moment of creation in my opinion is the aristocracy of the autograph," Mr. Corrêa do Lago said.
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As such, David's art, which drew inspiration from Roman antiquity, reflects the end of France's monarchy-aristocracy and abolition of the Feudal system, even while looking incredibly grandiose.
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The opener, in which we're introduced to the extended Getty family and to life at Sutton Place, J. Paul Getty's English country home, is British crazy-aristocracy comedy.
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The old days, of course (the "good" is silent), are what the Downton universe is selling, a magnificently appointed fantasy of benign aristocracy, grateful underlings and noblesse oblige.
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Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy.
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The mindset of the new aristocracy has not only imbued our politics -- it has hijacked America's value system, leading us to swerve from our democratic and deep human values.
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In the hunt for cost cuts, the number of partners and managing directors—the group that has been the very definition of Wall Street aristocracy—has declined by 13%.
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And the Conservative implosion opened the way to a left-wing government that fundamentally changed the balance between capital and labour, and between the landed aristocracy and their tenants.
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In the speech, in which he alternated between English and German, Charles did not mention Brexit by name, but dwelt on his family's own roots in the German aristocracy.
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Meanwhile, the rest of the Russian aristocracy scattered across Europe—dukes that had once commanded regiments were taxi drivers, countesses that had once presided over palaces became lady's maids.
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The acting aristocracy of Great Britain is as adamantine, in its way, as the Royal Family, and any other performer would, one presumes, have been forbidden by parliamentary statute.
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Related There's Something About These Portraits of Aristocracy New York's 100% Free "Anti-Art School" Announces New Classes FUG Yeah, Bruce High Quality Foundation University Opened an Art Gallery
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In the meantime, players like David Ferrer, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan Martín del Potro, Stan Wawrinka, and Kei Nishikori made attempts to unseat the tennis aristocracy without much success.
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And I think when you think about 19th century Chinese aristocracy, you see a lot of women wearing nail guards, and they look like these beautiful gilded like claws.
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At the time—and depending on which historical account you're scrolling through—so was eaten by the aristocracy for either medicinal reasons or just as a straight-up dessert.
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College football has an entrenched aristocracy that gobbles up all the national titles: the last time a team won it all for the first time was Florida, in 1996.
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Second, the meritocratic elite inevitably tends back toward aristocracy, because any definition of "merit" you choose will be easier for the children of these self-segregated meritocrats to achieve.
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Lady Mary fleetingly questions the future of the aristocracy, only to be reassured — by a servant, mind you — that she and her ilk are not just relevant, but essential.
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A robust estate tax would limit the American aristocracy, narrow the wealth gap and raise revenue for public services essential to those of us who won't inherit a fortune.
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We don't know the date or place of Jane's birth, or very much about her childhood, aside from the general habits that would have been followed by the aristocracy.
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The great feasts of the aristocracy were cooked in the castle by a battery of chefs and consumed in vast dining rooms, where men and women could mingle freely.
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The Luddites were, for the most part, not proletarians but skilled craftsmen, weavers who constituted s sort of labor aristocracy but found their skills devalued by the power loom.
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Using the appropriate language, Kapoor's maximalist, neo-baroque monoliths could be framed as a critique of the market, purposefully pushing the limits of capitalism into the realm of aristocracy.
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" The book's blurb on the French Amazon website describes him as being a long way from the petty thieves of the slums and instead one of the "criminal aristocracy.
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Set among the backdrop of the family's Edwardian English country home, the show's 52 episodes revealed the nuances of an era in which the aristocracy defined life in England.
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No such grandees had yet come to our shores, but it made sense to anticipate all the ways that European aristocracy might one day try to pervert American democracy.
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It extols the virtues of making your own clothes with a sewing machine and buying $15 thrift store shoes while demonstrating how soulless and oppressive the high school aristocracy are.
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On the other hand, as soon as you get social stratification, you get some people being quite interested in staying close to and marrying within their kinship, like the aristocracy.
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The panel's report suggested a legal change either to allow a female monarch or to reinstate members of the old aristocracy who were stripped of their royal status after WWII.
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After all, it was a good education in his mother tongue, rather than in the classics then favoured by the British aristocracy, that won Churchill the Nobel prize for literature.
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He dates the beginning of the "tailspin" to the 1960s, when school reformers set out to replace the old-boy aristocracy with a system more open, more fair, more meritocratic.
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The earliest Georgian street in Dublin — and the most intact collection of early-to-mid-Georgian houses in Ireland — it was built beginning in the 183s for the Irish aristocracy.
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More recently he has expanded his repertoire to include female subjects, as well as models from Brazil, India, Nigeria and Senegal, creating the collective image of a global black aristocracy.
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The Tories, traditionally representatives of big business and the landed aristocracy, weirdly resembled the fiery trade unionists of the past in their demand that workers be represented on corporate boards.
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Billions Among other things, "Billions" is a show about American aristocracy, of two men burnishing a legacy that will etch their families' names in the firmament for generations to come.
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"Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy," Giridharadas said.
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Down and out in Paris and London, knowing no one and with nothing but her pouch between her and destitution, what does this pure, delicate flower of the aristocracy do?
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Antifederalists "charged the Framers with seeking to establish an aristocracy of sorts," objecting to such anti-democratic elements as the Electoral College and Supreme Court appointments—complaints that resonate today.
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The text, based on works by Sarah Kane, J. M. Coetzee, and Wajdi Mouawad, turns the tormented queen of Greek mythology into a figure of pornography, aristocracy, and the bourgeoisie.
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When King Henry IV set up at what is now the Place des Vosges in 1604, the aristocracy followed, building the sumptuous mansions that imbue the area with glamour today.
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Food historian Frederick Opie notes that the aristocracy used to drink their eggnog warm during the cold weather, and added spices and alcohol like brandy and sherry to preserve it.
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Given his close ties to the Macedonian aristocracy, which was extending and tightening its military and political control across Greece, perhaps the Athenians were right to be suspicious of Aristotle.
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He got to see America from the bottom up and the top down, and he got to see it through the eyes of an aristocrat that knew aristocracy was finished.
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Like the similarly style-obsessed film version of The Hunger Games, Paradise Hills condemns a decadent, shallow aristocracy through a protagonist who's forced to get amazing makeovers and attend swanky parties.
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In the name of taming the platforms, regulators have inadvertently issued them a "Perpetual Internet Domination Licence", albeit one that requires that they take advice from an aristocracy of elite regulators.
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It was a mark of American aristocracy, the real-life Pocahontas having been reinvented (she probably did not save the life of a colonist called John Smith) as an "American princess".
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Here, Von is drawn as a cruel member of the middle aristocracy, because, even though it isn't, I think "Von" very well COULD have been an honorific for a European aristocrat.
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From their Continental masters, the native aristocracy acquired a taste for baths, mosaics and central heating; the villas they built during the third and fourth centuries were tributes to Roman taste.
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This election, a fight between a political outsider and the established elite political class, will decide if "we the people" will bring an end to the aristocracy of the privileged few.
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Artistic printed images were "available to the very few and found primarily in monasteries or churches, or in the palaces of the aristocracy," she wrote in the brochure for the show.
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Divided for years by a clear caste system that separated the workers for the aristocracy, the lower classes revolted, leaving me with the choice of who to support in the conflict.
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The French idea of forcibly breaking up estates originated after the French Revolution, among reformers who wanted to weaken the aristocracy and make sure that no single heir became too rich.
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There hasn't been such a compelling sartorial symbol of revolt since the Sans-culottes seized on their trousers as the point of visual difference with the aristocracy during the French Revolution.
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Ms. von Habsburg, the American archduchess who married into Austrian-Hungarian aristocracy, said that she has a low-key life except for occasional formal large family gatherings in castles throughout Europe.
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At Dior Mr. Jones can design clothes like this resplendent shirt, so offhand as to seem skate-rat generic, yet rendered at a level of skill commonly associated with the aristocracy.
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He has been a member by marriage of China's political and business aristocracy: He married a granddaughter of Deng Xiaoping, the Communist patriarch who oversaw China's market reforms in the 1980s.
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Sigourney Rose is the last surviving child of an islander family that succeeded against all odds in amassing wealth and power among the Fjern aristocracy — and, consequently, were massacred by them.
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Tim hails from the minor aristocracy, an un-American category of household that Miller portrays admirably in a few strokes — invisible money streams, abundant alcoholic beverages, many animals and general vagueness.
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First, the empire was henceforth ruled by a different kind of emperor: A cadre of military officers from the provinces along the Danube seized control from the old, wealthy, Mediterranean aristocracy.
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Arnulf Rainer's defaced engravings of European royalty challenge the aristocracy while Betty Tompkins thumbs her nose at patriarchy by obscuring nude female bodies with text in reproductions of famous art works.
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Consider, for example, the failed campaign to reform the House of Lords, which is the upper house of the UK Parliament and, like the swans, another relic of the old aristocracy.
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And I think a lot of the Catholic rules against it were actually attempts to control and limit the ability of the aristocracy to develop a kind of political and kin monopolies.
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PARIS/FLAGY, France (Reuters) - In 1789, Louis XVI summoned France's aristocracy, clergy and citizens to discuss ways to plug the crown's dismal finances and quell popular discontent over a sclerotic feudal society.
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"If we want things to stay as they are, things will have to change," warns a Sicilian nobleman in Giuseppe di Lampedusa's "The Leopard," a study of 19th-century aristocracy in decline.
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The American left stands poised to throw the Revolution overboard, to dismiss the spirit and legacy of 20113 as merely the cause of a racist, sexist, hypocritical aristocracy we should firmly reject.
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Enlightenment France was not Soviet Russia; sources of power were dispersed through the caprices of patronage and the existence of an aristocracy wealthy enough to be, within limits, independent of the King.
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"Meghan is subjected to double standards that are blatant in their intent to frame her as an ignorant, uncouth, and unfit for the aristocracy, much less the royal family," Meinzer told Insider.
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Sumptuary laws used to restrict use of the most complicated patterns to the aristocracy, and as the kingdom's governance faltered under the pressures of Belgian colonialism, the textiles became only more elaborate.
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I don't want to bring back the WASPs; if I had the magic wand to conjure a different elite, it would be a multiracial, multilingual Catholic aristocracy ruling from Quebec to Chile.
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"I almost felt like 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll' was an apology to those jet-set princes and princesses that he was hanging around with — the aristocracy, you know," Mr. Merrill said.
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Mathieu, the hero of the book's title, is part of a Resistance cell — along with a teenage girl and two women from the aristocracy — trying to smuggle British airmen back to England.
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" Wallance is a writer, lawyer, former federal prosecutor and the author most recently of "America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy.
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The Honors List was first established by King George V in 1917 as a way of recognizing achievement for fields other than those coming from the military, diplomatic corps or the aristocracy.
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"I remember when I was 11 and I first saw Visconti's 'The Leopard'," he said, referring to the 1963 film by the neorealist director Luchino Visconti about Sicily's decadent 19th-century aristocracy.
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Evelyn, unfairly dismissed by Virginia Woolf as "something of a bore", was born into minor aristocracy, conservative in matters of church and state, controlling and misogynistic, and obsessed with garden design and horticulture.
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He met his future wife, Michiko Shoda, at a tennis tournament and later became the first Japanese Emperor to marry someone outside of the aristocracy in the royal household's over 22018,22017-year history.
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"The old aristocracy of Dubrovnik built their summer houses here," said Vedrana Kelleher, the owner of Dream Estates Croatia, an associate of Savills, the international real estate company, which is listing the property.
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Her position in the aristocracy situated her arguments within a very specific and socially defined group because the upper echelons of society had different rules than the middle and especially the lower-classes.
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After the Free Officers toppled the monarchy in 1952, multicultural communities that helped turn Alexandria into a modern city began fleeing, and the aristocracy had no place in the city among widespread nationalizations.
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Fred and George Weasley The Weasley clan often have royal names, and it's possible that Rowling used the nominal connections to the British aristocracy and George's ear loss to foreshadow Fred's untimely death.
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Perhaps the biggest losers were the traditional landowning aristocracy, who were undermined by economic change, the abolition of serfdom, the advent of elected legislatures and the commercial feats of enterprising bankers and businessmen.
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And now we are told of another criminal investigation by the FBI into certain political favors for contributions to ostensibly charitable foundations, created and managed by the members of the permanent political aristocracy.
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The Second World War decimated the German aristocracy, and anti-élitist sentiment surged during the protests of 1968, as a generation of German students began to question the bourgeois priorities of their parents.
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Or is there a plausible competitor more clearly in the lineage of the petty-bourgeois radicalism that has claimed the loyalties of most American warriors against an aristocracy of wealth from Jefferson forward?
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The Tuscan city of Siena itself appeals to Mr Matar for having favoured civic rule at a time when many other Italian city-states were controlled by the Catholic church or the aristocracy.
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And while mega European houses built their reputations through symbiotic patronage of the aristocracy over many decades, Simons's cult status comes, in part, from the respect other innovators have bestowed on the designer.
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The first fissure is between the "newocracy," America's new aristocracy that benefits from globalization, such as the multinational manager, the technologist, and the aspirational members of the meritocracy, versus the refugees from globalization.
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As a country we have moved past the idea that the basics of a decent life should be hoarded by an aristocracy, a hereditary class with a monopoly on wealth, power and property.
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This was Jun Takahashi's fall women's show for his Tokyo-based label Undercover, a new utopian society unveiled in 270 separate, ornately dressed tribes: ''aristocracy,'' ''young rebels,'' ''monarchy'' and ''new species'' among them.
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But Goethe was not in Weimar simply as an ornament; to the dismay of the local aristocracy, he was quickly raised to the highest level of government, becoming the Duke's most trusted adviser.
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Much of the country's aristocracy followed suit, and in the construction boom that followed, the city's seafront gained its elegant, Belle Époque feel through standout buildings like the salt-water spa La Perla.
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Europeans fixated on the differences between the Melanesians and the Polynesians, imagining the Polynesians as a kind of laggard aristocracy, comparable to the ancient Greeks, and the Melanesians as naturally backward black people.
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But Middlemarch goes farther than rejecting social class as an arbiter of worth — it suggests that the vitality required to thrive in a changing world is not to be found in the aristocracy.
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But there's no mistaking the fact that the movie is about her, and how she stands her ground against an overseas aristocracy intent on casting her as an unworthy upstart, a gold-digging interloper.
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The shutdown has prevented them from preparing for the exhibition, which features 46 paintings and more than a dozen works on paper, ranging from regal portraits of Venetian aristocracy to scenes from Greek mythology.
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You'll see "jab jabs," devil-like creatures usually covered in black paint, romping around Flatbush at 4 AM, or maybe a "Dame Lorraine," an exaggeratedly voluptuous woman dressed up to mimic the French aristocracy.
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Although Justice Souter himself was a famously modest individual, the aesthetic of this political stance is often high-bourgeois, almost a middle-class idea of the kind of aristocracy a constitutional democracy could sustain.
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Then again, ours has never been a culture to value the reflective life — unlike in France, say, where public intellectuals hold political positions, or England, where Oxbridge dons form an aristocracy of the mind.
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By the same token, it is an oversimplification to suggest that the nationalist movement embraced a majority of Irish people, apart from a few civil servants at Dublin Castle and the Anglo-Irish aristocracy.
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Today's art world, in fact, offers one of the most conspicuous manifestations of what Mr. Deneen identifies as "the extreme presentism of the contemporary era," as well as its "new aristocracy" of economic winners.
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Throughout the book, he vacillates between the idea that meritocracy is a thin ideological veneer protecting a new aristocracy—and the idea that those who succeed at the race really are special, if overcompensated.
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Slow to integrate, and with only male members until seven years ago, the private club is among the most exclusive playgrounds in the country, a haven for masters of the universe and Southern aristocracy.
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But if that doesn't happen, he acknowledged, the future looks a little grim—like a return to a time when the landed aristocracy controlled an army of servants who controlled literally nothing at all.
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BOOK REVIEW A picture caption with a review last Sunday about "The Husband Hunters: American Heiresses Who Married Into the British Aristocracy," by Anne de Courcy, misstated the name of Winston Churchill's maternal grandmother.
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"When I met her in the early '80s, I had the impression that she represented a very contemporary irony about American aristocracy, which is almost impossible to define," he told the fashion trade journal.
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But Fellowes convinced Leech that Branson's ties to the aristocracy would have made him a "pariah," so back he came, and in the movie, when King George V visits Downton, Branson bows to him.
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If it were going to happen, however, one would expect it to have happened during the early days of the Republic when monarchy and aristocracy were still the norm in most of the world.
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On Soccer BARCELONA, Spain — In the last eight days, an era has ended, a dynasty has been dismantled, an aristocracy has crumbled and a balance of power that held for a decade has shifted.
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The series' end foreshadowed the eventual decline of the British aristocracy, but much of the family had moved so far away from relying on their status that it shouldn't be too big of a problem.
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As the success of "Downton Abbey" made clear (some 6.6m viewers watched the final episode live on Christmas day 2015), there is an appetite for drama about the seemingly glamorous world of the British aristocracy.
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Members of China's elite and the general public alike have not concealed their outrage that so powerful a figure—a member of the corporate aristocracy—could be arrested by a country as puny as Canada.
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Reading Dicken's "A Tale of Two Cities," for example, I learned the personal side of the class struggles of both the aristocracy and the masses in a way that personalized the French Revolution for me.
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My first thought was that he was a blackmailer, but by comparing him with his photograph on page 226 of "The Aristocracy of the Spirit World" I saw that he was indubitably Cosgrove P. Harden.
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The V.I.P.s expected over this particular long weekend, said Christopher Robbins, the show's longtime caterer, include the "Real Housewives" Ramona Singer, Jill Zarin and Luann de Lesseps, almost birthright members of a reality TV aristocracy.
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Pilate arrived in Jerusalem to attend to routine duties, and one of them on this particular visit was dealing with a charismatic preacher who had aroused the ire of the Sanhedrin, the Jewish priestly aristocracy.
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By cutting de Villiers down to size, Macron swung a punch too at a wing of the ultra-conservative Catholic aristocracy - a grouping that backed Francois Fillon, one of his main rivals for the presidency.
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The V.I.P.s expected over this particular long weekend, said Christopher Robbins, the show's longtime caterer, include the "Real Housewives" Ramona Singer, Jill Zarin and Luann de Lesseps, almost birthright members of a reality TV aristocracy.
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" He added: "To hear that your father is racist, a snob, a poster boy for the aristocracy in the '70s didn't sit very well with the rather charming, rather lovely and kind man that I knew.
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In old Bordeaux, rat was actually seen as a meat fit for the aristocracy, and these vintners in old Bordeaux would trap rats and prepare them with this beautiful sauce of shallots, tarragon, and red wine.
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"The Capote Tapes," which is closing out the festival, focuses on Truman Capote's unfinished novel, "Answered Prayers," in which he "set out to expose Manhattan's social aristocracy after he befriended them," according to the event's organizers.
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The meeting at the Chateau de Chambord, built some 250 years before the nation's high-living aristocracy were ousted by workers and peasants in the 1789 revolution, was called to discuss the future of European agriculture.
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Frederick Law Olmsted visited England in 1850, marveled at the gardens of the aristocracy, came back to America and turned what he saw into great public parks — Central Park, the U.S. Capitol grounds and many more.
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"Many in this establishment are behaving, in my view, as they face the prospect of a Bernie Sanders nomination, like out-of-touch aristocrats in a dying aristocracy," Mr. Giridharadas said on MSNBC on Sunday morning.
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Walking along the streets of downtown Charleston, the painter Jonathan Green describes a city that has been so enthralled with its plantation aristocracy that it has mostly neglected to celebrate its black heritage, or Gullah culture.
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Aristotle's six-fold classification of political regimes from monarchy to aristocracy to polity to democracy to oligarchy to tyranny is in effect a theory of revolution, of regime changes from good to bad and back again.
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Unlike traditional Carnival krewes who toy with aristocracy by plucking debutantes to serve as "queens," the Krewe of Vaporwave sends up a power structure that does more these days to rule our lives: the power of screens.
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If the crippling of the state allows economic behemoths to do whatever they like to others, then what libertarianism licenses, in the garb of liberty, is the creation of a new aristocracy, entitled to hurt the commoners.
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After all, says Ed Bridges, retired director of the state's Department of Archives and History, the hill-country yeomanry were the "descendants of the serfs and peasants of Europe" and "feared the rise of a new aristocracy".
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Revived in its modern form in 1930 as a moment for Brussels to show off its rich history, the week-long Ommegang - Dutch for "going around" - features more than 1,400 actors, including some of Belgium's contemporary aristocracy.
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LES LIAISONS DANGEREUSES Christopher Hampton's adaptation of a steamy 1782 novel about sex, intrigue and cruelty among the aristocracy in pre-revolutionary France returns in a production starring Janet McTeer and Liev Schreiber, directed by Josie Rourke.
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Seoul's original hanok began their large-scale disappearance in the early 215s, when colonial rule left swaths of land around the city's central palaces — then still inhabited by the fading aristocracy of the Joseon dynasty — in ruins.
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This wasn't the case in Goya's early painting days, for example, when, generally speaking, you got to see great works face to face only in churches or, if you were lucky, private collections owned by the aristocracy.
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One table survives in her original museum collection near Smolensk, and no one knows how its twin ($250,000, at A La Vieille Russie) left Russia after the Bolsheviks drove her out with the rest of the aristocracy.
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It's a nod to the pervasive idea from the mid-20th century that Anastasia Romanoff escaped that basement room, living on into the late 20th century and animating plenty of stories about the Russian aristocracy in exile.
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The exhibition drives home the connection between the 1950s designs as a stylistic homage to those of the 18th-century aristocracy, like Marie Antoinette, by displaying his designs side by side with those of noblewomen in similar silhouettes.
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Backed by right-wing parties, landowners, industrialists, the aristocracy, the Catholic Church and monarchists, the rebellion asserted control over much of Spain but met resistance from the left-wing Republican government army in Madrid and some other cities.
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THE hereditary principle is not just unAmerican but harms the children of great men, Benjamin Franklin declared soon after the revolutionary war, as rumours flew of plots to establish a new aristocracy with George Washington at its head.
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" Wallance, a writer and lawyer in New York City, and a former federal prosecutor, is the author most recently of "America's Soul in the Balance: The Holocaust, FDR's State Department, and the Moral Disgrace of an American Aristocracy.
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Mr Benn is a member of the Labour aristocracy: the son of Tony Benn and, significantly, one of the leaders of the moderate faction of Labour MPs that is doing battle with his father's ideological heir, Jeremy Corbyn.
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From humble roots—the oldest of three children of a tinto , a dyer—he waged, more than conducted, a career in competition with favorites of the Venetian aristocracy, chiefly his sublime elder Titian and his elegant rival Veronese .
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In the late 18th century, during the French Revolution, a significant component of the uprising sported working-class pantalons — basically trousers — instead of the fancy knee breeches, or culottes, worn with heels and stockings by the male aristocracy.
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Representing the theme of "Pompadour Pink," after the pink-loving Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's official chief mistress, they date to 18th-century France, when the color was extremely fashionable among both men and women of the aristocracy.
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Backing Mr. Rush is the crème de la crème of the Australian theater aristocracy: The theater director Neil Armfield, the film director Fred Schepisi and the actors Robyn Nevin and Helen Buday have all testified in his defense.
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It might better be called "A Brief History of a House," since each of its scenes take place, over six decades, in one of those stately piles that once served as seats of power for the British aristocracy.
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Tip "A curtsy should be a discreet, brief movement and not a ballet plié or a sweeping descent to the ground," says Lucy Hume, associate director of Debrett's, the leading authority on British aristocracy and etiquette since 1769.
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It's a real compliment to Smith, an American and the author of biographies of both Charles's mother and his ex-wife, to say that she understands the British upper classes and aristocracy (including the royals) very well indeed.
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One of North Korea's aristocracy, defecting as deputy ambassador to the United Kingdom in 28503, Thae Yong Ho's testimony is highly valuable — less for his recommendations, and more for his revelations about the thinking of North Korean elites.
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But one of the Sarahs moved to Connecticut and the other Sarah's rich dad sent her to the mediocre girls' school in Pittsfield, where all the withered aristocracy waiting out death on our colorful hillsides sent their children.
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Montano is known for his charm, stage presence, and a work ethic that finds him up at all hours rethinking his persona and calling in collaborators—everyone from soca queen Alison Hinds to hip-hop aristocracy like Busta Rhymes.
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On the centenary of the assassination of the Romanovs' Svengali on December 30th, the republication of Yusupov's memoir provides a timely glimpse into the charmed, doomed world of the Russian aristocracy, and its hectic collapse amid the Bolshevik revolution.
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The seeds of the party were first planted by future Presidents Thomas Jefferson and James Madison who united to form the Democratic-Republican Party in the 1790s, opposing rule by aristocracy in America and rule by monarchs in France.
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NEW YORK (REUTERS) - India Hicks - goddaughter to the Prince of Wales, granddaughter of Britain's last viceroy in India and bridesmaid of the late Princess Diana - may have been born into aristocracy, but she has not rested on her laurels.
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Mbatha-Raw is herself a fighter: In 2014, she broke through with Amma Asante's "Belle," about the mixed-race daughter of an 18th-century British naval captain raised among the white aristocracy — a role she pursued for eight years.
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Underpaid young politicos and retiring lawmakers depend on Beltway lobby shops — known as ''K Street'' after the city boulevard that once housed many of them — for the high-six-figure salaries that will loft them into Washington's petite aristocracy.
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Sickness & shame will overcome you as your whole life sinks into that created by someone else, ruled by a new country & the English aristocracy & its helpless ways, by surrender of something beautifully old-fashioned & New England & pure in you.
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These big-money donors have pushed the Republican Party in particular further to the right by threatening well-funded primary challenges against anybody who doesn't toe the line on tax cuts for the rich and other pro-aristocracy policies.
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The lingering attachment to the 18th-century aristocracy still exerts social influence today, and it's not uncommon for parents to ask after the last names of their children's friends, to see if they come from so-called good families.
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"Right here before our eyes, in this House, the Republicans are replacing the great American ladders of opportunity with the silver spoon of plutocracy and aristocracy," top House Democrat Nancy Pelosi said during the debate on the budget measure.
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Where: South Carolina; When: 1890–1918 Benjamin Tillman was a farmer in South Carolina who made his way into politics advocating for poor whites against the ruling Southern aristocracy (good!) and also their issues with the recently freed black population (bad!).
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Once the advantages of being born into the aristocracy were no longer synonymous with luxury, money became the key to success, and in the early 19th century, rich members of the bourgeoisie wanted to show off—something they did by eating.
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While you might assume these are being listed by those land rich money poor aristocracy Downton Abbey warned us of (or Oprah), there were, according to The Cut, over 1,200 members of the general public who received the bag as well.
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Perhaps because reality now seems freakier than fiction, the series' takedown of the American aristocracy doesn't feel as inspired or subversive as it did back in the early 2000s, when it was deflating the cockier George W. Bush-era swells.
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In Washington Square, for example, it's easy to see how the stolid, demure brickwork of the Greek Revival homes gave a New Yorker like Henry James a sense of security in his position as a descendant of early American aristocracy.
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The liberal principles Smith advocated in the Wealth of Nations were "in the interest of the public," while mercantile ones favored the "mean rapacity" of British merchants and manufacturers who, in league with the landowning aristocracy, conspired against the public good.
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Her paintings, as Seph Rodney writes in his review of her recent show at the Whitney Museum of American Art, represent an iteration of black excellence and beauty that is founded upon wealth and status, the self-image of the aristocracy.
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In the 1950s, Nancy Mitford, in Noblesse Oblige, characterized the differences between the upper and lower classes in Britain as "U and non-U," derived from a paper by linguist Alan Ross who studied the English uses of the British aristocracy.
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Americans now believe that we are no longer citizens of a republic, but subjects of an elected aristocracy, composed of a self-absorbed permanent political class, which serves the interests of international financiers at the expense of the American people.
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THE PRESENT It's not as well known as Anton Chekhov's later plays, and it's a sprawling mess in some ways, but "Platonov" hits classic Chekhovian motifs like unrequited love, the irresponsible aristocracy and a character people love to compare to Hamlet.
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" Realizing that the Republican aim of a homogeneous citizenry, in which equal rights were enjoyed by everyone, had drastically shriveled into a plutocracy, Howells agreed with the reformer Lyman Abbott that "politically America is a democracy; industrially America is an aristocracy.
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As the opulence of the 18th century began to dissipate, Sontag suggests that the traditional aristocracy were replaced by "aristocrats of taste," a pattern that has continued to this day and allowed camp to become a tool of marginalized groups.
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The United States has nearly always had some form of tax on inheritances, in part to fund the government but mostly to stave off extreme differences between income levels, avoiding an aristocracy in favor of the ideal of a meritocracy.
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The Kremlin recently adopted the proposal by a group of expatriate nobles to erect a monument to reconciliation in the city, given that Crimea is where the Russian aristocracy and its White Army made their last stand after the 1917 revolution.
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As the elite behind Mr. Xi congeals into a political aristocracy, it is also overseeing the closing down of Chinese society, through restrictions on the internet, social profiling and extensive surveillance, or the extraordinary repression of ethnic Uighurs in Xinjiang province.
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It hangs here, in one of the show's most cunning moves, across from a still from "The Rules of the Game" (1939), whose hunting sequence is both a landmark of technical acuity and a devastating portrayal of the French aristocracy.
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The show charted the highs and lows of the British upper class during the period, including the scandal of illicit romances, the impact of World War I and the dwindling power of the aristocracy alongside the rise of the middle class.
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"Daphnis et Eglé" and "La Naissance d'Osiris" were composed for the court of Louis XV, to be performed at the palace of Fontainebleau, where the royal family (and much of the aristocracy) retired each fall in to enjoy the hunt.
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The fact that she is mixed race, a divorcée, a career woman and not a member of the British aristocracy is all very positive for the future of the monarchy, and for it to be seen to be relevant to society today.
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The princess wore a many-layered court kimono and molded hairdo typical of the imperial aristocracy, while the groom wore a black tuxedo with grey trousers for the ceremony at the shrine dedicated to the spirit of her great-grandfather, Emperor Meiji.
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The late 19th century saw America suffering from many of the problems that are reappearing today, including the creation of a business aristocracy, the rise of vast companies, the corruption of politics and the sense that society was dividing into winners and losers.
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And, and, and since they can just give the house to their kids, the law creates a kind of gentry, a legislated aristocracy of homeowners who can never afford to sell ... in a state where no one is building any new homes.
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Maybe a hope for fortitude, maybe a willingness to give the listener a little push forward, maybe a bit of archness in delivery (nobody batted an eye at the idea of him as aristocracy after all), but it was music free of contempt.
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A Supreme Court majority, sharing a constitutional vision that harkens back to the days when political power was enjoyed by only a landed, male, white aristocracy, is preventing our democratic processes from solving problems that go to the very heart of our democracy.
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At its entrance is an exotic neighborhood of tombs and shrines devoted to the city's Andalusian aristocracy — flamenco stars and fallen bullfighters such as Francisco Rivera Pérez "Paquirri," who is sculpted in a matador's suit and poised to guide a bull's final attack.
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"The Husband Hunters" by Anne de Courcy recounts the fates and fortunes of the women who helped prop up the British aristocracy, leaving behind the savage competitiveness of New York for the English countryside, male-dominated politics — and a lot of rain.
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I eventually learned that many old museums were, indeed, built by men with princely aspirations, members of an American aristocracy of industrial wealth, citizens of a still newish nation that simultaneously shut the globe out and considered it ripe for the picking.
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The 12th-century Rosalia (rhymes with Maria), the patron saint of Palermo, is said to have been a descendant of Charlemagne and was born to aristocracy and wealth, which she renounced to become a hermit, devoted to God and living in a cave.
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With the election of the commercial Sun King Donald J. Trump to the presidency, and the pedestrian aristocracy of gold sneakers walking the street — Chuck Taylors, Nikes, Skechers, Keds for Kate Spade — there is again the gleam of gilt in the public eye.
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"To hear that your father is racist, a snob, a poster boy for the aristocracy in the '70s didn't sit very well with the rather charming, rather lovely and kind man that I knew," Mr. Bingham told The New York Times last year.
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Green has channeled the landscape paintings of the early Northern Song dynasty — when painters took to the mountains to escape the turmoil of a political order uneasily shifting from aristocracy to bureaucracy — along with the fantastical landscapes of the Sienese painter Ambrogio Lorenzetti.
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As Cuthbert enters the zoo, we're in a light satirical dystopia: There's some gentle mockery of Cuthbert's populist jingoism, a little parody of Britain's entrenched class system and love for aristocracy, a little exaggeration of the Western obsession and identification with technology.
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"Kick fell in love with one of the heirs to the great Protestant families in the British aristocracy, and of course that's a tremendous problem," says author Barbara Leaming, whose new biography, Kick Kennedy, offers a fresh look at the beloved but rebellious Kennedy daughter.
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That a member of the white aristocracy has to lead the natives, who can't seem to do it on their own, is just another indication of how Hollywood has mostly portrayed Africa and Africans for decades -- either with smirking racism, or tut-tut condescension.
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Johnson's family has links to British and European aristocracy and he is a distant relative of King George II. He should tell that to Trump, who appeared bowled over by his recent state visit to the U.K. and was particularly impressed by the queen.
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This was the impulse behind Jefferson's hope that the United States would long remain a country made up principally of yeoman farmers, and it animated Andrew Jackson's war on the "monied aristocracy" he saw at work in the Second Bank of the United States.
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As an actress, Ms. Gam befriended and roomed with Grace Kelly and was a bridesmaid at her wedding to Prince Rainier of Monaco in 1956, a union of European aristocracy and Hollywood glamour that was one of the biggest social events of the decade.
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Mr. Crowe and Tristan Raines, the costume designer, dress the characters in stylized mid-20th-century clothes; the aristocracy are garbed mostly in bright whites, while the lower orders wear plebeian black and gray, augmented by red trimmings that increase as they grow more powerful.
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"Girls," which had its premiere at San Francisco Opera a year after President Trump was elected, depicts California circa 1850 as a true melting pot: not just forty-niners, but also Mexican aristocracy, Native Americans, former slaves and immigrants from China and South America.
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"Much of the land owned by the Crown, the aristocracy, and the Church has not been registered, because it has never been sold, which is one of the main triggers for compulsory registration," the registry, which covers England and Wales, says on its website.
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As a member of the aristocracy, Lenox has access to Metropolitan Police bigwigs, but to establish himself as a private consultant he must solve a case on his own — ideally, a cunning mystery like the one he and his clever valet, Graham, contend with here.
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Under the direction of Jessica Lazar, the rendering of his stories, including several lesser-known ones and two incomparable classics, brings out their most accessibly theatrical elements — the Oscar Wilde-esque epigrams and the comic grotesqueness of pompous members of the aristocracy and haute bourgeoisie.
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It should seem obvious that meritocracy — a system in which the most talented and capable, the best educated, those who score highest on the tests, are put in leading positions — is better than plutocracy, gerontocracy, aristocracy and, perhaps, even the rule of the majority, democracy.
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Pierre Verdrager, a sociologist and author of "L'Enfant Interdit," or "Forbidden Child," a book on the politics surrounding pedophilia in the 1970s, said that what united its defenders was the belief that France had an "aristocracy" that was not bound to ordinary norms of conduct.
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In the game of six degrees of separation, this was a good one: Mr. Bolen's mother-in-law, Annette de la Renta, had cousins (via her mother, Jane Engelhard) who had married into the de La Rochefoucauld family, storied members of the French aristocracy.
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There's a pivotal period in Rome, around the middle part of the 2nd century BC, in which there's an economic revolution that displaces a lot of people who had belonged to a hereditary aristocracy and moves them off the top economic rungs of the state.
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Edward VII's mother, Queen Victoria, set off a craze for dog paintings within the British aristocracy, starting in about the 1840s, said William Secord, an expert on the genre, who owns an art gallery in New York and a Dandie Dinmont terrier named Rocky.
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