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...WAPSHOT SCANDAL, by John Cheever. In chronicling the calamitous entry of the genteel Wapshot family into the 20th century's mobile society, Novelist Cheever again displays his unique perspective on contemporary American life...
...What Underwear!" Communists even show a certain pride in genteel Chekhovian shabbiness. Restaurant tablecloths are almost always slightly soiled, but clean oilcloth is distinctly nekulturny. Hotel maids may forget to remove dead cockroaches, but they never fail to dust the chandelier and the grand piano. Only at the ballet does the Russian's old love of flashing hues and sumptuous textures seem to come into its own. Even women's underwear at lingerie counters is coarse and drab, prompting a visiting French Communist's classic comment: "What under wear! Yet what a birth rate...
...Genteel Cult. By knowing more about Regency fops, rakes, routs and blades than anyone else alive, Georgette Heyer has turned what otherwise could be dismissed as a long series of sugary historical romances into a body of work that will probably be consulted by future scholars as the most detailed and accurate portrait of Regency life anywhere. She has also become the center of a genteel reading cult that has made her for years a runaway bestseller in England and now is spreading to the U.S., proliferating vociferously at ladies' luncheons and in lending libraries. But as with...
Built in 1794 by one Thomas Beall as an investment for lease or sale to "a genteel family," the three-story residence has seven bedrooms and an elevator. Downstairs, beneath 13-ft.-high ceilings, are a sunny living room and a dining room that can seat 20 at one table or 40 at four smaller ones. Upstairs are a master bedroom and bath, with an old-fashioned wooden porch at the rear of the house, a second bedroom-bath and a large library with a fireplace. On the third floor are four more bed rooms and two baths. The front...
Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...