Word: genteelness
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...just that, leaving the genteel girls' school where she had been teaching to create a new order among the poor of India's most desolate city...
...Vile Bodies. Raised in Richmond, Va., Wolfe spoke softly and courteously, exuding an air of the right stuff. But he wrote like a hit man. "Tiny Mummies! The True Story of the Ruler of 43rd Street's Land of the Walking Dead!" was a surprise attack on the genteel New Yorker magazine and its shy, venerated editor, William Shawn. A shocked cultural establishment struck back. An outraged Joseph Alsop and E.B. White called Wolfe's piece brutal, misleading and irresponsible. Richard Goodwin sent a bolt from the White House. "I didn't think I'd survive...
...colonial era, the four-block stretch from the lake to the French opera house was the fanciest shopping street in Indochina. Today the stores are eerily quiet. Little except 60? busts of Ho are available at the Fine Arts Emporium. An elegant photography studio hints at Hanoi's genteel past, but the only examples of the proprietor's craft are dusty portraits of Ho, Che Guevara and Jane Fonda. Inside the massive central department store, no amount of artful deployment of bicycle parts and condensed milk can hide the fact that little is being produced for public consumption...
Hanover Street stars two highly attractive actors, Harrison Ford and Lesley-Anne Down, as well as the genteel Christopher Plummer in the role of the heroine's betrayed husband. The movie has three types of scenes: briefing scenes, bombing scenes and tearoom scenes. Sometimes it is difficult to distinguish among them because every set in the film, indoors and out, is flooded with mist. The sound track is inundated with John Barry's crashing score, next to which Michel Legrand's florid music for Summer of '42 sounds like Hindemith. Yet the plot does somehow manage...
...down the center aisle of the reading room so as not to draw excessive attention. Many members of the Class of '54 seemed to pin their hopes on meeting and marrying a Harvard man, although The Crimson reported, in September 1951, Radcliffe women faced stiff competition from their more "genteel counterparts" at Wellesley. Back in '51 The Radcliffe Quarterly could quote a professor's remark without much hesitation: "The Radcliffe girl carries feminism and femininity in almost equal balance. It's enough to upset anybody." Of course the professor was male. Only one woman was tenured, holding an endowed chair...