Word: genteelisms
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Mansfield's comments drew the debate out of the genteel world of academic disputes and into the fray of student activism. At first, students mulled the remarks and waited for clarification, but a month later, their reaction was dramatic...
Director Kirk Williams sets the play in the South. Or does he? Steve Latham delivers a brilliant performance as the kindly old- guard judge, Escalus, gone Dixie. He presents an enchanting vision of a genteel southern drunkard, wracked by guilt. But apart from the bourbon shots that the authorities knock back in moments of stress, the Old South interpretation ends there...
...paper had been crippled by a strike and a hemorrhaging of advertising revenues wrought largely by the recession. Zuckerman could not hope to go head to head against the steady New York Times, but he had to be concerned about two other dailies. One was the genteel, struggling New York Newsday, once described by a News editor as "a tabloid in a tutu." The other, to be sure, was the staggering, vulnerable Post. It was the first target...
READERS ACCUSTOMED TO THE ARTFUL BLEND of whimsy and genteel humor in the New Yorker for 68 years are in for a shock. This week's cover features a painting of a Hasidic man and a black woman engaged in a loving kiss. New Yorker art editor Lee Lorenz and editor Tina Brown, four months on the job since she arrived from sassy Vanity Fair, faced intense opposition to the cover from the magazine's senior staff. Several objected to the painting -- not for its blunt representation of interracial harmony but in the "fear that we were being glib about...
...GENTEEL OLD LADY EXPLAINS IT ALL in the early pages of FRAUD, Anita Brookner's new novel (Random House; $21). "She loves me, but I've taken away her life," she says of her daughter. "She will want to put me behind her, as I should have let her do years ago." Years ago and books ago. Brookner has built a reputation as Britain's foremost novelist of sensibility. Her books are true to their subjects and scrupulously written. But there comes a time when rebellion flares in the reader, who knows by now that it will take the daughter...