Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...production at the Hotel Bostonian does not muster enough reserve to pull off the play's melodramatic interludes. If the actors performed in a more genteel, more Victorian key, they might be able to speak Ibsen's moody lines more comfortably. Their aggressive, coloquial style tends to rinse away the realism which Ibsen wanted to achieve...
...Times's Curtis was covering an upper-crust Waltz Evening in Boston's Sheraton Plaza Hotel, and she could not resist noting that the ballroom temperature steadily ascended from 59° to 64°, impelled by all that genteel exertion. Nor did she refrain from logging the other leisure pursuits of Mrs. E. Sohier Welch, patroness and architect of the bash. In her spare time, reported Society Reporter Curtis, Mrs. Welch crusades against billboards, litterbugs, and "laws that prevent the sale of birth control devices in Massachusetts...
...Charmingly Square." Like Civil Servant Lewis Eliot, fictional hero of his series of novels, Snow was born "shabby genteel, really, just a cut above the working class." Their careers have run parallel for two decades, and Snow's newest book, Corridors of Power, makes the coincidence even closer...
Fifteen years ago, California politics was floating through an era of constructive good feeling. Governor Earl Warren had spread his bipartisan patrimony over every policial faction, and candidates ran for office with genteel good humor, eschewing debate for folksy celebrations of the sun, surf, and oranges...
Despite the rough realities of American life in the 1820s, Con Melody lives completely within his genteel fantasy. He despises the local villagers. He believes himself a Byron, standing in the crowd but not of it, and he often strikes an absurd pose before the mirror to recite the poet's lines, reflecting vainly on his lost aristocratic past...