Crossword-Solution: ARRIVISTE 9 letters, 25 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

Leroy-Beaulieu, in _La Question de la Population_ [96] states that those districts of France which show an exceptionally low birthrate are distinguished by a peculiar atmosphere of materialism, and that their inhabitants exhibit, in a high degree, an attitude of mind well named _l'esprit arriviste_--the desire to concentrate on outward success, to push on, to be climbers, to advance themselves and their children in fashionable society.

The word forms the title of a recent French novel, _L'Arriviste_, and (translated) of an English one called _The Climber_.--_Trans._ [15] So in the original.

His evolution was direct and logical, as a close study of his work will show; and those who see in him an _arriviste_ may with equal justice bring the same charge against Michelangelo.

That, more than anything else, fired his ambition, for he was not one to crouch at the feet of chance, waiting, as an _arriviste_ waits, for his own advancement.

Briefly, he is a type of the talented, versatile, erratic weakling--a variety of what Paris expressively calls the _arriviste_, who loomed so largely through the final years of the last century, and who by force of numbers, not of power, threatens to dominate the century which has just begun.