Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Things were as genteel as could be when Byron De La Beckwith, 43, accused killer of N.A.A.C.P. Leader Medgar Evers, was transferred to Hinds County Jail in Jackson, Miss., after three months in nearby Rankin County Jail. "Glad to see you," welcomed the jailer. "Mighty glad to be here," said Beckwith, comfortably puffing on a cigar and seemingly unconcerned that his trial has just been set for Jan. 27. But even Southern hospitality has to leave off somewhere. When he asked permission to bring his gun collection, his jailers politely refused. Back in Rankin County the sheriff was amazed...
...Charlestown, the Cattons detect "a faint but undeniable whiff of decay" under the city's genteel tradition." Brierfield, Davis's estate, is said to have been in the Scarlett O'Hara tradition, and governors' messages are said to have "popped and rattled across the Gulf states like a chain of firecrackers." The authors also claim that "no two men in all the nation held views about the [Kansas-Nebraska] crisis with firmer conviction than did Abraham Lincoln and Jefferson Davis." And to everyone but the reader, "it was obvious, from almost every angle, that the [1860 Republican] party...
...Persian Room, part of Manhattan Hotel Plaza, is a kind of Metropolitan Musem for living canvases, where genteel singers, chiefly female. keep the blue-rinse and cufflinks crowd smoothly entertained through dinner, under a ceiling so high that the usual stratum of nightclub-blue smoke rises healthily out of sight. Right now, though the tinkly quiet has vanished, extra chairs have been packed in, and jam ming crowds nightly try to fight their way past the velvet rope- for the smoke is on the performing floor. Ethel Mer man is there...
Undoubtedly the most widely read review is Daniel J. Boorstin's comparison of Age of the Scholar with Clark Kerr's The Uses of the University in "Book Week." Boorstin contrasts Kerr's "courage and intellectual clarity" with Pusey's "genteel, vague, sanctimonious, and insular mind...
President Pusey's new book, The Age of the Scholar, was attacked as the product of a "genteel, vague, sanctimonious, and insular mind" in the lead article of yesterday's New York Herald Tribune book review section...