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There exists just one viable refuge from the whole macabre orgy: the Farnsworth Room. Soft lighting and a standing ban on laptops make this genteel area a solemn sanctuary from the pandemonium outside. Rediscover your pen and move upstairs, and watch as all your despondency dissipates...
...Zimbabwean, has observed quite a bit of jambanja at uncomfortably close quarters, and he has meticulously recorded his outraged, torchlit impressions in this remarkable memoir: the harassment, the chanting mobs, the beating of the elderly, the pointless destruction of food-bearing land, all the smashed crockery of a peaceful, genteel microculture destroyed by greed and ignorance with the blessing of Zimbabwe's monstrous President Robert Mugabe...
...HEBRIDEAN SPIRIT: This handsome vessel offers the elegance of a luxury liner, but in smaller portions. Accommodating just 96 guests, Hebridean Spirit has plush cabins, a spa, a library and five-star dining, but none of the tacky nightclubs and gaming machines that clutter larger vessels. A number of genteel Indian Ocean cruises are available, taking in India, Sri Lanka and the Seychelles among other destinations. Lengths vary from six to 14 days and guests can look forward to any number of sun-dappled pursuits, from viewing giant turtles in the Seychelles to strolling through Madagascar's bamboo forests...
George Bernard Shaw understood that principle perfectly when he penned his 1916 play Pygmalion: His street-urchin heroine Eliza Doolittle is unable to better her economic and social situation because her heavy cockney accent prevents her from being hired in a genteel flower shop. She’s doomed to remain a “draggle-tailed guttersnipe” until a phoneticist sweeps in, fairy-godmother-like, to teach her a proper English accent...
...named after the Arbat, a famous street in Moscow. As well as English menus, you'll find some decent wines there-a big plus in a country where "wine" tends to mean a cloying beverage that's almost unbearably sweet. The food is superior too: the chef delivers a genteel take on Russian home cooking. For sending e-mails over a cappuccino, or grabbing a bite after a day spent touring the historic timber houses that characterize Irkutsk, Fiesta and its upstairs neighbor are about as tourist-friendly as provincial Russia gets...