Word: genteelisms
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...caliber public schools, public-be-damned municipal employees. Probably the most common complaint is the astronomical (and still soaring) cost of living and doing business in Manhattan. Almost everything is more expensive than anywhere else in the U.S.: rents, land, labor, taxes, meals, entertainment and even some forms of genteel bribery. The Bureau of Labor Statistics calculates that living in the New York City area costs executives 16% more than in Los Angeles or Chicago. 20% more than in Detroit. 28% more than in Dallas. Young executives are more and more reluctant to accept a transfer to New York...
...late '50s when sales of straight historical novels and detective stories sagged and publishers needed a new kind of formula entertainment to promote. Today the field is dominated by Victoria Holt, the most prolific writer, and Mary Stewart, the most accomplished. Right behind come such veterans of genteel fiction as Norah Lofts, Catherine Gaskin and Phyllis Whitney, the only American in this group who has a major reputation. Elizabeth Goudge tends toward "atmosphere" and romantic biography. There are newcomers coming along-Jill Tattersall, Jane Aiken Hodge-but neither has yet had a major...
...idea that a Harvard President should be fanatical enough about his almost evangelical creed to stake the good name of the University on its preservation was abhorrent. When Pusey made the Christian purity of the Church a cause celebre, instead of acceding gracefully, in what Santayana would call the genteel tradition, he signed his death warrant as an effective president. Cries for his resignation were raised privately by many influential alumni...
These case histories gradually create a portrait of Victorian life-social sport, gossip, entertainment-centered on a succession of gory crimes. In the process the author dispels once again the myth that a genteel, civilized Victorian England ever existed. Its underside was a subculture of squalor, misery and brutality, all sanctioned by public apathy...
...play is a bit different. Jack and Harry greet each other and talk. Not only that. They meet Kathleen and Mariorie, two lower-class women who are earthier and more honest than the genteel men. It is from the women that we learn that Harry burned down a building, and that Jack followed little girls. Spouting giggles at Harry's unintentional double-entendres and leaning coquettishly on his arm, Kathleen clearly likes the shy, wistful man; perhaps Marjorie, sour and blunt, finds Jack attractive as well. the relationship cannot develop. "Events have their own momentum," Harry says at one point...