Word: genteelism
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...magazine. Every review carefully noted that it was a 50th birthday, ode to The New Yorker, and in the reviews, the magazine enjoyed an almost embarrassing free ride. Critics tripped over each other to salute The New Yorker's prestige, to rhapsodize about its cerebral humor and genteel good taste. No doubt about it, they said. The New Yorker is it, America's most literary, most intellectual magazine. And on the same Sunday that its book review section waxed eloquent about this remarkable magazine. The New York Times's business section examined The New Yorkers's Ledgers and found...
Despite the destruction, one squad member described the match as a "genteel affair." But the Yalies were hardly gentlemen. Depressed and defeated, the broken Bulldogs declined to attend the traditional post-match cocktail party, whimpering back to New Haven after the walloping...
Lazard's officers were so upset that they took a rare step in the genteel world of investment banking; they complained to the French Finance Ministry. It seemed most unsettling that the Arabs had forced French banks to exclude French businessmen from financings for French government companies. But Premier Jacques Chirac refused to get involved, declaring the exclusion to be "a matter of relations among banks and between banks and their clients...
...society as disenchanted students, angry congressmen, disappointed parents, Gallup polls, etc."). Also high finance (the faculty, Schmidt says, wonders why Harvard has "suddenly become General Motors," while "faculty wives are just as vociferous about the weekly trip to Sage's as the ladies are in Southie, if somewhat more genteel...
...Money. Again, they are no more immune than the rest of the country. I am sure faculty wives are just as vociferous about the weekly trip to Sage's as the ladies are in Southie, if somewhat more genteel. Beyond this there are such vital matters as pensions, grants, foundation support, taxes, and the cost of sending children to school...