Word: donnish
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...that one expects to find there. The latest issue carries a full page picture of the last day of all-male study in Lamont, fringed with a mournful black border and captioned "Sic Transit Gloria Viri." Bethell like his predecessors pounds out for every issue an anonymous column of donnish humor called "The College Pump...
...weather Lothario gets his comeuppance from a free-thinking London model (Jane Merrow) who smoothly beats him at his own game. She lets him drive her Buick Riviera and invites him to her father's luxurious summer home, where one of her donnish young Establishment pals sneeringly trounces him in a tennis match. Tinker ultimately sees himself as the girl sees him-inconsequential and rather desperate, not a galloping individualist who puts down society because it stinks, but a wobbly nonentity who is afraid to grow up and compete for all the dandy, vulgar goodies the world affords...
...turned out instead to be a donnish Johnson. Political commentators from all parts of the spectrum have remarked upon Wilson's exceptional political skill. His singular achievement has been to move his party in from the left, blur distinctions between the parties on a range of issues, and, at the same time, demonstrate that Labour can, after all, govern with prudence and responsibility. Even the Tories have ceased to raise the spectre of socialism's red ruin to frighten the electorate...
Died. Sir Pierson Dixon, 60, donnish, unflappable diplomat, spare-time belle-lettrist and novelist, who as Britain's permanent representative to the U.N. (1954-60) coolly defended his nation in the furious 1956 debate over Suez, thereafter served as Ambassador to France (until February), playing a major role in the abortive negotiations for Britain's entry into the Common Market, after which he remarked sadly that reasoning with De Gaulle was "like trying to get through to a man wearing a suit of armor"; at Egham, Surrey...
...Labor Cabinet is divided between party veterans who still call each other "brother" and are belligerently proud of not being university men, and a group of donnish types with dazzling academic credits. The dons seem to predominate. Like Harold Wilson himself, five top Cabinet members took firsts at Oxford, and several of them have had teaching experience. Leading appointments...