Word: genteel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lobbying in Washington may not be the most genteel profession, but in these days of federal support for education, it's become a fact of life. No longer can women's colleges like Radcliffe--or any college for that matter--sit back and watch the government's wheels slowly grind on, crushing federal aid programs in clammy bureaucratic jaws. Many colleges, including the nations' 125 womens' institutions, have grown increasingly dependent on federal funds. And when the government begins to tug on the institutional purse strings, administrators run from their Ivy towers to catch the next shuttle to Washington...
...just that, leaving the genteel girls' school where she had been teaching to create a new order among the poor of India's most desolate city...
...Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The Europeans is one of Henry James' most delightful novels, a small, approachable comedy of manners, widely regarded among Jamesian scholars as the masterpiece of his early years. But the story of Eugenia and Felix, Europeanized sister and brother who return to Massachusetts for some genteel fortune hunting, is, on the face of it, unlikely material for a film in the Age of Travolta...
...Vile Bodies. Raised in Richmond, Va., Wolfe spoke softly and courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive...
...colonial era, the four-block stretch from the lake to the French opera house was the fanciest shopping street in Indochina. Today the stores are eerily quiet. Little except 60? busts of Ho are available at the Fine Arts Emporium. An elegant photography studio hints at Hanoi's genteel past, but the only examples of the proprietor's craft are dusty portraits of Ho, Che Guevara and Jane Fonda. Inside the massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced for public consumption...