Word: genteel
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...OPTIMIST'S DAUGHTER by Eudora Welty. A muted Southern tale about dying and surviving and what can be salvaged through genteel memory and raw feeling...
...free schools for middle-class white children, which Kozol found usually operated by "liberal and genteel men and women" who strive to keep their schools nonpolitical. Despite their diverse resources, Kozol says that many of them offer children only "unimportant options," such as a choice between working with "bright and whimsical gadgets" like a packaged science game, or doing "their own thing" at the weaver's loom and potter's kiln. To Kozol, these choices are not really free, at least not in any way that genuinely matters. Instead of confronting their students with moral dilemmas and social...
...Most had never been to New Bedford a scan 40 miles away. Most feared it as ugly, riot-torn, dangerous; as somehow impure and of a different species of America. No, they said, they would play their political games in the suburbs where politics is neat and clean and genteel, and have nothing to do with those ugly places where the work people did made smoke come out of factory chimneys...
...continents for 16 years, but the last place she expected to be the other day was in a Bayonne, N.J., brassiere factory. When Eleanor McGovern chose that unlikely spot to hustle votes for Husband George, Angelo and other reporters were on hand. Politics has obviously changed since the genteel kaffeeklatsch campaigning that most political wives used to practice, and the jet-paced public styles of Pat Nixon and Eleanor McGovern are at the heart of this week's cover story...
Father and daughter have both long been widowed, but at 70 the old man is sanguine enough to marry Fay, a redneck trollop 30 years his junior, and introduce her into genteel circles. Fay is in every way Laurel's opposite-a shrewd, stupid vixen with a "little feist chin" who questions any altruistic gesture made to her, not out of skepticism but simple inability to comprehend...