Word: genteelism
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Affair, by C. P. Snow. The eighth novel in the author's projected eleven-volume cycle on Britain's New Men uses a scientific scandal to set off a typically reflective, genteel - and slow-moving - discussion of one of the dilemmas of power: how to judge not, yet still do justice...
Faces of Justice. Like its predecessors, The Affair is intelligent, reflective and genteel. As in The New Men (No. 5 in the series), Snow deals with scientists and their troubled consciences in the Atomic Age. As in The Masters (No. 4), the setting is a university that might be called Oxbridge, whose High Tables have been rocked by a scandal that will not down with the port...
...been a top civil servant, and remains something of a tycoon, as Director for the last 13 years of English Electric, Britain's biggest electrical firm). His father was a gentle underling in a shoe concern in Leicester, England. The family was poor, at least "shabby genteel, no money to spare." Young Charles won a scholarship to red-bricked Leicester University, where he copped first class honors in chemistry. He went on to earn a master's degree in physics (1928) and win a research fellowship at Christ's College, Cambridge. But, says Snow, "I was never...
...really learned drawing at the League," he says gently, smiling from the corner of his Raymond Massey mouth. "You learn something when you are with it more than eight hours a day." Hale went on to become a drawing instructor at the League and elsewhere, seemed destined for genteel, professorial obscurity until 1949, when the late Metropolitan Museum director, Francis Henry Taylor, tapped him for curator of contemporary American art. Taylor was under heavy fire for having allowed the Met's purchases of modern American painting to lapse. He gave Hale his wrinkled, balding, well-groomed head, and Hale...
Author Griffin's insight into the gradations of genteel snobbery and the petty power ploys of aspiring bureaucrats reduces most sociological studies to the rank of kindergarten scribbling. Still, the sahib at sunset, whatever his stupidities, retains some of the pathos of an old family retainer sacked after a lifetime of bumbling but single-minded loyalty...