Word: genteel
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...Brahmin gentry" birth leads him to "preside over Harvard's sporting aristocracy with the gentlemanly reserve of his forbearers" from the same pages that but a few months ago chimed "Harvard Divest" and "Liberation to the Oppressed". That such admiration for a "tradition of quiet genteel success" and "a full column of Gardiners, all boasting home addresses such as Brookline and Greenwich and assorted American Embassies" was printed by a newspaper which professes to frown upon arbitrary power structures and their manifestations in South Africa and Playboy centerfolds is most surprising...
...only one of many characters gracefully projected on the page like shadow puppets. The unnamed husband of Elizabeth muses on the genteel oppressions of his native Boston. Later he is mentioned as a man who reads and writes all day, has "the preoccupied look of a secret agent" and free-associates about Goethe with his psychiatrist. The author seems to have measured elements of Lowell very carefully, knowing that his specific gravity could easily upset the delicate balance of her fiction...
This horrific tale is told with marvelous shadowy indirection and delicate lyricism. It is full of enigmatic silences, which create a nice, ironic tension between the film's genteel manner and its really quite ferocious theme. It may be seen as a mature exercise in style by a young director, if for no other reason. In addition, it is the centerpiece, so far, of the revitalized Australian film industry and the first assured work by a director who could gain an international reputation. -Richard Schickel
Early in the 1960s Berg's publishers, Universal Edition in Vienna, quietly commissioned Cerha to proceed with the orchestration anyway. After Helene Berg's death at 92 in 1976, a genteel scramble ensued. Liebermann had a secret advantage in Boulez, long the publishers' first choice to conduct the premiere...
...fashion retailers. Those that have failed in the past decade include Best & Co., Arnold Constable and Peck & Peck. Now one of the street's very biggest names will disappear: Bonwit Teller. For most of its 80-year history, Bonwit's specialized in dressing well-heeled women in genteel elegance. But the store moved from mere affluence to a position of real fashion influence in the 1960s, when its sharp-tongued president, Mildred Custin, decided that Bonwit's should take the lead in promoting the designs of such emerging ready-to-wear pacesetters as Calvin Klein and France...