Word: genteel
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From the moment he arrived in Newport last June with his twelve-meter yacht Southern Cross, Alan Bond has been upsetting the genteel traditions of America's Cup competition. First the Australian land promoter and mining tycoon uncrated 20,000 cans of Aussie Courage beer in a resort that prefers champagne or gin-and-tonics. Then he gave in to his crassly commercial instincts, briefly sporting the name of his own 20,000-acre development on the transom of his yacht. Finally, Southern Cross's tender rudely ran an opposition boat off its practice course...
...time, the post of U.S. ambassador offered not only prestige but usually a genteel, comfortable way of life as well, with quiet diplomacy amid pomp and splendor. Today, in a world racked by guerrilla uprisings and civil wars, the American ambassador is often a target, a visible, vulnerable surrogate for his country and its policies. Last week's murder of U.S. Ambassador to Cyprus Rodger Davies-the third assassination of a U.S. ambassador since 1968* -was a tragic reminder of the dangers that America's envoys now face...
...have sprung up in the U.S. and Europe to fight for orthodoxy or traditional ritual. The largest and most vigorous of these in the U.S. is Catholics United for the Faith (C.U.F.), an organization with 135 chapters and nearly 12,500 members across the country. Founded in 1968 by genteel Wall Street Broker H. Lyman Stebbins and four other concerned Catholics, C.U.F.'s main complaint is that religious indoctrination of Catholic youngsters has virtually been taken over by liberal priests, nuns and publishers. As a result, they contend, traditional doctrines of faith and morals are hardly taught in many...
Colson apparently satisfied Nixon's yen for macho operators. He was one of those who talked of "playing hardball" for keeps, and hostile outsiders were not his only targets. He, along with Haldeman, cracked down on more genteel staffers like Communications Director Herb Klein. Though a Nixon friend for more than 20 years, Klein finally resigned. Everything Contrived. His most important role was as a resourceful if unscrupulous political operator. Colson took on the tough jobs for the President. He leaked damaging or misleading information to the press about people who criticized the President, had young men hired...
...least, there are songs, choruses commenting on the action" -but there has never been an opera quite like this. A sort of jaunty and funny morality play about a housewife obsessed with the glories of her floor waxer, it combines the unwieldy stylizations of grand opera with the genteel hysterics of tele vision commercials. The last story, The King of Yvetot, about a man of advancing years who is cuckolded by his young wife, has the level worldliness and sensuality of a late Renoir film like Picnic on the Grass...