Word: genteelism
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...Genteel Passerby...
...live the life of a genteel passerby, youmight say," Taylor says...
...when it involves adults." I'm amazed when men who think of themselves as thoughtful and intelligent refuse to recognize the irony of their own duplicity. Child pornography is an early step in desensitizing males to accept adult pornography that depicts women as "deflowerable" and even abusable teases. How genteel of Handy to suggest we condone and support those same degrading messages only when they apply to adult females. GAIL SNYDER Woodstock...
Even on the level of scale, Walker distorts the niceties of hand-held, 19th century bourgeois silhouettes. The near full-scale images in her surreal world aren't genteel keepsakes or familiar racial epithets. Walker's anti-stereotypes wouldn't make good logos on syrup bottles or tidy punch-lines to racist jokes. Rather, the very icons designed to suppress and stigmatize blacks return magnified and grotesque to haunt our collective conscience. Most shocking of all, the pickaninnies have appropriated the garb of paper silhouettes, the charming craft of their mistress' reaction...
...personal life was far more difficult to balance. Luce had grown up in a kind of genteel poverty--a scholarship student working at menial jobs and pinching pennies among boys and young men of great wealth. Once he had a fortune, he lived in high style. He bought or built great houses, collected art, stayed only in the best suites in the best hotels. In 1935 he divorced his wife of 12 years (and the mother of his two sons) to marry one of the most glamorous women in America--the already acclaimed editor and playwright, later Congresswoman and ambassador...