PARIS — She is well born, well known and wealthy, an heiress and former supermodel turned pop singer who has dated the rock stars Mick Jagger and Eric Clapton.
Where Quintus says his brother can, despite being a novus homo, win over "a man who is well born, and most devoted to humane studies," Freeman says, "You will have the best and the brightest... on your side".
As one letter writer put it, the German emperor could promote politicians on the basis of their achievements, whereas "a democracy has no such knowledge: it chooses its leaders because they are well born, because they are skilful speakers, because they are good fellows".
Most of these women were well-born.
As Pascal says, if you can manage to be well-born it saves you thirty years.
Being well-born young men, however, they hide out in Upper East Side town houses, the Racquet Club and F. A. O. Schwarz.
Amanda turns out not only to have "gentle geometry" but also to be well-born; the Manahata are a matriarchal tribe and her mother is the sachem, or chief.
The two men couldn't have been more different — Hadden was well-born, a Yalie and a Bonesman; Ross was a Colorado rube, or at least he pretended to be — and they made fun of each other's magazines.
Although FEO carries the idea of offsetting the advantages of being well-born to its logical limit, it should be noted that by allowing differential ambition legitimately to affect individuals' life chances, FEO may not go far enough toward defining an ideal of genuine equal opportunity.
