Word: genteelism
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...genteel practice of monogramming has gone beyond fine linens and towels. Now consumers are slapping their initials--or those of spouses, friends, even pets--on their sandals, toenails and cocktails. "Anytime you can personalize something, it elevates it," says Donata Maggipinto, culinary director of Williams-Sonoma, which has upped its line of monogrammable products 15% this year. Last year Los Angeles Victoria's Secret stores offered monogramming of initials and other symbols on bras and panties; it was such a hit that last month the chain made the service available nationwide. Barneys' brisk-selling lettered cashmere sweaters, introduced last year...
...There are no genteel words of welcome..ethnic studies is described as a would-be intruder in the master’s house,” said Broyles-Gonzalez, pointing to words like “impose,” “coerce,” “misguided” and “cautions”on the website’s description of ethnic studies...
...dune buggy trips ($90), Perera's company Desert Rangers offers a range of excursions, including overnight trekking ($102, with meals) in the Hajar Mountains, sandboarding and sandskiing ($148) and kayaking in the eastern Klaba mangrove ($82); for more information, call (971-4) 346-0808. Many operators offer more genteel desert safaris. After a 30-minute drive east of the city into the desert, our group clambers into a fleet of 4x4s. There's some more dune bashing, air-conditioned this time, and after 90 minutes we arrive at base camp in time for some sandboarding and camel riding. We watch...
...soon as a new path to self-fulfillment opens up, it is crowded with a rainbow assortment of followers. In inner-city Washington, popular sessions with new practitioners are held each week in a house that stands in the shadow of the I-395 expressway. Out in genteel Manassas, Va., famed for its Civil War battlefield and white frame buildings, Falun Gong practitioners meet on the weekend at a most traditional venue: the Episcopal church...
...might also refer to the status, then and now, of the original Groaner. In the early '30s Crosby had created, or certainly synthesized, the craft and tone of modern pop vocalizing. The summer of 1956, however, when "High Society" premiered, was the sweltering season of "Hound Dog." Genteel warbling of the Crosby stripe was two generations passé. First it was supplanted by Sinatra's aggressive poignance; then it expired in the steam Elvis' and Little Richard's Afro- eroticism. At 53, Crosby had become a superstar emeritus, a genial irrelevance, a golfer and a duffer...