Word: genteelism
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...singing voice, which is still her major asset, she has added an ease in her movements about the stage and in her transitions of mood which had not quite developed in her previous roles. Though she is perhaps not as physically suited for the role of a genteel captain's daughter as she was for the authoritarian figure of Princess Ida, the element of absurdity added by the contrast of her size to that of Jeff Davies is more than worth this minor disadvantage. Davies, the third improved veteran, has what superficially appears an easy task as Sir Joseph Porter...
...revolution. In America today the main impetus for social change comes from alienated middle class kids. Some of them, the musically inclined, turn to rock music, but they retain the musical values they were brought up with, those of classical music. No wonder that their rock comes out genteel, and cerebral, framed within long-drawn out set pieces...
...will not be the exuberant, swinging blowout that began the Kennedy years, with a seemingly endless inaugural parade and partying through the night. For four days, the capital will whirl sedately with genteel Republican merrymaking, beginning with an All-American Gala in the District of Columbia Armory, produced by Ed McMahon of the Tonight Show (see TELEVISION). For $10 to $100 a ticket, the guests will get Ed and his boss Johnny Carson, Dinah Shore, Lionel Hampton, James Brown, Marguerite Piazza, Tony Bennett, Hugh O'Brian and Hines, Hines & Dad. The night before Inauguration, Salt Lake City...
...making their donations to a citizen group for Rooney rather than to the candidate himself, the donors did not violate the Hatch Act provision prohibiting direct political contributions. Nonetheless, as the Washington Post argued, "The giving of campaign contributions under such circumstances is not far removed from a genteel bribe. And the taking of them is bound to strike some people, starting with us, as something very like a political shakedown." Rooney sailed off to Japan for one of his regular inspections. In Tokyo he will confer with Ambassador U. Alexis Johnson and look for luxuries lurking in embassy operations...
Every Injustice. Sinclair came from a shabby-genteel Maryland family, absorbing from that background both a breadth of interests and a sympathy for other havenots. He helped support himself in college by peddling jokes to newspapers for $1 each. He ground out several pulp novels before The Jungle, and he read even faster than he wrote: in one two-week Christmas holiday, he got through all of Shakespeare's plays and Milton's poetry...