Word: genteel
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...manner that does not betray himself or those he cares for. He is an old-fashioned man of private conscience and good will who is doomed in a world of arrogant passions and ruthless compromise. Miss Gordimer sympathetically brackets him between two quotations. The first is from the genteel self-exile Ivan Turgenev: "An honourable man will end by not knowing where to live." The second belongs to the Marxist guerrilla Che Guevara describing himself as an adventurer "who risks his skin to prove his platitudes...
There is an incident in Vanity Fair in which the genteel officers and ladies of England, on their way to fight the battle of Waterloo, pause to take in an Opera. We do not know or care what Opera it is. The audience cares only about the audience. The production is an excuse for an Opera, and Hello Dolly is an excuse for a musical. The experience is faintly amusing and excruciatingly boring. But we keep the appraisal secret for the producers say the real problem is money...
...many women-the onset of the new women's movement seems startlingly abrupt. In many ways, however, the new feminism is developing along the lines of the civil rights movement. A young, assertive Women's Liberation Movement has brought new publicity and fire to the older, more genteel crusade, bewildering and sometimes outraging men in the way that black radicals infuriate and frighten whites...
...going to be ortolans all the way. But that winter the family fortune showed signs of imminent collapse. Early in 1927, West found himself working as night manager in a seedy little Manhattan hotel on 23rd Street called Kenmore Hall; later, he moved uptown as manager of the shabby-genteel Sutton Club Hotel...
...least since Earth Day, however, the garden-club ladies have felt a certain smugness. America's garden clubs have been preaching conservation for years, albeit in modest and genteel ways. Last week when 600 delegates to the national council gathered in Chicago, they tended to say, "I told you so." Said Mrs. Howard Kittel of Fort Worth: "The image of the garden club has changed a great deal. People are beginning to look up to us for information rather than down at us for being a bunch of nuts. We are taking an environmental rather than a cosmetic approach...