Word: genteel
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...Witold Szulc (pronounced Schulz) has reported foreign news, he has occasionally found himself between man-made calamities. Not to worry; Szulc has a talent for cultivating his own scoops and controversies. In fact, he is unique among foreign-affairs reporters. In a press corps that tends to mirror the genteel and cautious ways of diplomats, Szulc comes on like a Chicago police reporter-except for the fact that he speaks seven languages. While colleagues are parsing communiques, Szulc cultivates CIA men or pores over Air Force shipping records to find out where U.S. arms are going...
...basis of these chats, Kearns postulates that L.B.J. was torn between his mother and father-with considerable anger and resentment toward both. Johnson's mother was a genteel woman who read Milton and Shakespeare to the young L.B.J. and forced him to take ballet and violin lessons. She saw her husband, a lusty small-time farmer, trader and politician, as a limited, vulgar man, and turned her affection to the young Lyndon in what Kearns calls "an emotional overfeeding that led him to grow up thinking the whole world should accommodate itself to him." But when Lyndon...
...Front Page, the Ben Hecht-Charles MacArthur classic about newspaper high jinks circa 1928, police reporters stop at nothing in pursuit of a new lead or an old adversary. Journalists have become more genteel since then-some say more timid-but once in a while the old ways show up. Two enterprising Louisville reporters, Howard Fineman, 25, of the morning Courier-Journal and Jerry Hicks, 27, of the afternoon Times, were arrested last May for eavesdropping on a closed meeting of the local Fraternal Order of Police...
Amis is 52. The subjects of his unkind attentions this time are the genteel aged, people approaching second childhood through their half-past 70s -in short, a group about whom society feels notably ineffectual and guilty...
...urine, Bernard tries to turn the group against Zeyer's dreadful, sad old dog, Mr. Pastry, and to convince Shorty that his bladder is ruined. A Christmas dinner scene, with bored and horrified younger generations present, is a comic masterpiece in which petty ferocity, mostly masked in genteel dialogue, shatters attempts at kindness and good cheer...