Word: genteel
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...small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature 1896-1919) and a biographer (T.H. White...
...those who stay, the ideal lifestyle has undergone a kind of genteel greening. There is a new concern about ecology, with Susanna Agnelli (sister of Fiat President Gianni) continuing to lead a campaign to preserve the wildlife of Porto Santo Stefano, the Tuscan coastal town that she serves as mayor. Rome Art Dealer Derna Querel recalls meeting several young members of the Frescobaldi and Antinori wine families who boasted of having joined in a grape harvest, including barefoot trampling of the fruit. In Rome last Christmas, a financially strapped family of the nobility threw a picnic in their palazzo...
...characters to arrive always at the right time for major events, like figures in 19th century novels heavy with coincidence. But for all its worthy exertions, the series at its core was curiously passionless. An accumulation of small anomalies diminished it. Dr. and Mrs. Weiss behaved with such genteel forbearance down to the last horror of the Zyklon B showers that their journey seemed like Mr. and Mrs. Miniver Go to Auschwitz. The lovers, Rudi and Helena, romped in the Ukraine wearing clothes that looked like peasant chic from Bloomingdale...
RUDDIGORE, or The Witch's Curse seemed cursed when it premiered in 1887. A vital piece of stage equipment malfunctioned; genteel members of the audience found the title vulgar, objecting to the offensive adjective "bloody;" lower class viewers demanded the revival of The Mikado, which had closed three days earlier. Despite extensive revisions, Ruddigore acquired a reputation for failure, artistically and financially. It was known as "the unlucky opera"--but Harvard is lucky to have it, thanks to a particularly fine Gilbert and Sullivan Players production...
...knew at the top of his lungs--and off key. Clutching his muscatel for dear life, he fought off three conductors and a plain-clothes cop until the train reached the next station, whereupon wino and muscatel went flying out the door. The other wino was the more genteel type--and she kept me company from D.C. to New York last Christmas. She was a sweet old Southern lady--74 years old, she kept telling me--with a habit of pulling on a flask of "Irish Rose" wine every five minutes. By the time we hit Baltimore she was polluted...