Word: courteousness
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...centuries, civility reigned in Britain with the permanence of the black and gold of the Royal Standard. Maids served their aristocratic lords and ladies hot dishes of traditional lamb and beef peppered with the appropriate number of sirs and madams. Masters, in turn, gave them the courteous nod, the occasional leftover and fair pay. But, underneath the lacy facade, fear and hatred lay brewing, occasionally ruffling the cover with a small gust of wind...
...friends moved from a mostly black elementary school to the mostly white high school, she left behind her black friends without embittering them. "In advancing herself, she kind of faded away from us," says classmate Nathan Booker. "But nobody held it against her because she was always nice and courteous." She graduated from high school in 1957 and took a job as a clerk typist; two years later she made the leap to Washington because "I wanted to see more, do more, know more," as she once told a reporter. She married, had a daughter and divorced while moving through...
...connection with the Advocate we shall avoid all quarreling. There is no reason why we should not be as courteous in our public conversation, when all the world may hear, as on more private occasions...
Nonetheless, Gattaca, despite a certain emotional shallowness, does hit a nerve with its glass-and-chrome model of a society obsessed with the potential for human perfection. Perhaps its best spokesperson is the courteous, kindly-looking genetic "consultant" who, early on, advises Vincent's parents on the birth of their second child. After sketching some of the wonderful and more reasonable tweaking possibilities that lie before them--prevention of genetic defects, diseases, bad eyesight, predisposition to obesity--he finally concludes, in the most quietly persuasive tones in the world, "[The child] is still you...It's just the best...
...Lichtenstein, who died at 73 last week of complications arising from pneumonia, was not quite the most famous of the American Pop artists. That honor belonged to Andy Warhol, who made it somewhat dubious. Lichtenstein was always lower-key as a person, reserved, wryly courteous and not a great believer in the virtues of publicity. He neither sought nor avoided the limelight...