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...makes calculations so quickly that his opponents have dubbed him "the Computer." In the past two years he has won over $40,000 in tournament prizes-and far more in private games. The intrusion of these professional players into what before Obolensky's promotion was strictly a genteel, upper-crust diversion has proven upsetting to some members of the old-school backgammon establishment. "Gammon is supposed to be fun," says Lewis Deyong, a London businessman who is one of the world's top-ranked players. "But with all these bridge types in the game it has become kind...
Robinson originally considered himself miscast as a criminal, and in a way he was right. He was a pillar of Beverly Hills' genteel society, a philanthropist who supported and worked for dozens of causes. He played the harp, amassed an immense collection of impressionist art and was a student of eight languages. When he and Gladys Lloyd, his wife of 28 years, were divorced in 1955, the settlement forced him to sell off his $3,250,000 collection, pieces that he called his "children." But he married again and went back to work despite ill health. Bearded, gray...
These were hardly the words of fighting journalists, but these were not the days of great journalism, either. The worst newspapers of the period were the great yellow rags, the best were so genteel as to be stultifying--The New York Times's masthead boasted "It Does Not Soil the Breakfast Cloth." The Faculty of the College had seen to it that several earlier newspapers went out of existence after they had dared to print critical articles, and even a paper co-founded by James Russell Lowell had died from lack of readers. The bravest of the College papers...
...Jean Boffety, Rosalie has a certain smoky beauty, as if she were being observed through several layers of gauzy bandage. But her charms are, alas, merely photographable. Rosalie's mysterious appeal remains elusive, so it is difficult to see what exactly drives Cesar and David into such genteel frenzies. They would probably be happier with each other anyway...
...DOCTOROW, even the lives of the Rosenbergs are sacred, and the Warshows of the world are merely scared, effete liberals, "mistaking education for character", made prideful by their genteel perceptions, but underneath, afraid of the questions that people like the Rosenbergs asked. His Isaacsons are the Rosenbergs as a committed critic would have drawn them. They may be guilty, but they are not aberrant, they are motivated by a simplistic analysis of abhorrent social conditions, but those social conditions are real...