One night this year, stumbling around in the dark in search of one such establishment, my partner and I barged in on what turned out in fact to be a family having dinner.
He wore cashmere sweaters and suede shoes; he drove a pointlessly expensive car; he didn't work in an office; he was vague about where he went to school and, worst of all, boasted that he had been educated in "the university of life" - not a teaching establishment my parents recognised.
To the Editor: E. Digby Baltzell, the sociologist, dedicated his book "The Protestant Establishment" to "my undergraduate friends at the University of Pennsylvania, many of them grandsons of immigrants to the urban frontier, who, in spite of their possessing too many Jaguars and mink-coated mothers, have constantly renewed my faith in the American Dream of unlimited opportunity".
Could you explain what [unintelligible]? A. The definition of sufficient reductions is going to be determined after I consult closely with the secretary of defense and the defense establishment in my administration, the people in my administration.
Edward Gibbon, after writing the last words of his six-volume "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," walked out into his moonlit garden on June 27 , 1787 and dissected his feelings in terms that are reminiscent of Massie's: "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and, perhaps, the establishment of my fame.
Caro is a great student of Gibbon, and he must be familiar with what Gibbon wrote in his house at Lausanne, Switzerland, in 1787, after completing his "Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire": "I will not dissemble the first emotions of joy on the recovery of my freedom, and perhaps the establishment of my fame.
"I am in the establishment because my dad, the greatest man alive, was President of the United States, and my brother, who I adore as well, as [a] fantastic brother, was President.
But the sinister forces of the elitist multicultural Establishment took my invitation away.
But I've got, like, the whole of British establishment up my ass now.
Arthur Hailey's novel is set in the mid-60s, the time the establishment in my novel opens: a perilous time for traditional, independent hotels, thanks to the rise of glossy chains.
"After seeing how the establishment treated my father during his presidential campaign," he later wrote, "I had every reason to believe that the powers-that-be would do everything they could to keep another Paul away from the reins of government".
