Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Oscar Hubbard (E. G. Marshall) is a mean, vindictive half-man who vents his malice by slapping his genteel, alcoholic wife Birdie (Margaret Leighton). Oscar's brother Ben (George C. Scott) is shrewder, abler, more sardonic. Their sister Regina (Anne Bancroft) is ambitious for wealth, power and position. The trio's chance for the big money rests on joining a foxy Chicago manufacturer (William Prince) and sharing the costs of putting up a cotton mill. The key figure in the deal is Regina's husband Horace (Richard A. Dysart), ill in a Baltimore hospital. She orders...
...overly-aggressive visitors from the North Woods found Tupouniua's Tongan band of genteel rugby particularly confusing. They were equally confused by the big junior's Dartmouth socks and repeatedly passed to his flashing green legs...
...Western campus (20 minutes from San Francisco by freeway) also contains glossy ultramodern buildings, and its 770 students are broadly drawn from 45 states and 24 countries; nearly a fourth of the girls get financial help to meet the $3,000 annual charges. No longer interested in a protective, genteel education, Mills girls plunge eagerly into such unsheltered activities as tutoring Negro youngsters in Oakland and studying city government by taking part-time municipal jobs. Blessed with a legion of loyal and generous alumnae, Mills has nearly doubled faculty salaries in the past ten years (current average...
...Fairchild headed Women's Wear Daily's Paris bureau, he was dubbed "Blouson Noir" ("Black Jack et," or "the tough one") by irritated fashion designers, who even crossed to the other side of the street when they saw him coming. As a trade-publication reporter, the supposedly genteel Fairchild had turned out to be an acerbic, outspoken critic of fashions. If Paris designers were relieved when he left in 1960 to become editor of Women's Wear, it was the New York fashion world's turn to be surprised. As New York Times Fashion Writer Marylin...
...encounter, the collapse of friendship, the failure of understanding. In the title story, a Swiss schoolmistress in Algeria befriends a Moslem youth and tries her civilizing Christianity on him; he destroys her Christmas creche and tricks her into helping him join the F.L.N. In The Hours After Noon, a genteel French lecher, visiting an archaeological camp, gestures toward a Moroccan girl and ends up behind a boulder with a wire around his neck. In The Garden, a wife puts a potion in her husband's food because she thinks he has been hiding treasure in the garden; when...