Word: genteelism
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...mementos form a miniature gallery of the career of the crusty, often irascible and always independent Senator from Arizona: his dedication to U.S. military strength; his lonely conservatism, which prefigured the more popular version that followed; and a 100-proof Western sensibility that was never diluted by the genteel mores of Washington...
Mozart once wrote that he composed music as effortlessly as a cow urinates. Chekhov was more genteel about his own fluency. "I wrote serenely, as if eating bliny," he says, and elsewhere picks up an ashtray and offers to have a story about it ready for the next day. Editors of Russia's literary journals appreciated this facility and Chekhov's acceptance of editing to satisfy Czar Alexander III's censors...
...American Booksellers Association convention in New Orleans. Introduced by Walter Cronkite, Conroy regaled publishing executives and retailers with funny stories about his career and family. With just the right amount of country-boy shuffle, he told how his father, a rough Marine Corps fighter pilot, and his mother, a genteel Georgia beauty, gave new meaning to the word incompatibility. Conroy reminded everyone that his father was the model for the eruptive hero of his 1976 novel The Great Santini. He then disarmed his listeners by talking frankly about the close relationship between his life and his fiction...
...that Specter could be upset by Underdog Congressman Bob Edgar, who trailed his foe by about 18 points in a recent poll. An unabashed liberal who would increase social spending and reduce military appropriations by scrapping the MX missile and Star Wars, Edgar, a Methodist minister who combines a genteel manner with tough rhetoric, attacks the President and the Senator in the same breath. "Ronald Reagan wanted to take away your Social Security benefits back in 1981," he tells a group of senior citizens. "I was outraged . . . But Arlen Specter thought it was a good idea...
...alas, no rose is without a thorn. Some have suggested the rose is somehow too genteel, too proper to be the American symbol. Much better the rangy sunflower or the homespun black-eyed Susan. "Most of the beautiful roses we cherish are European roses," said Stanwyn Shetler of the National Museum of Natural History, who testified against the rose and advocated, instead, the phlox. Moreover, like many homegrown American products, the new symbol is prey to foreign infestation, the rose's principal enemy being the Japanese beetle. Despite a few cavils, there seems little doubt that President Reagan will sign...