Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...paid any attention to the dapper, mustachioed gentleman who joined the members of the men-only Friars Club in Manhattan last week at a stag roast for Sid Caesar. By week's end, however, the officers of the 79-year-old male bastion were trying to forget Phillip Downey, better known as Phyllis Oilier, 65. The idea to crash the party came from the loudmouthed comedian's boyfriend, Howard Rose, an architect and dues-paying Friar, and she began working on her disguise a month ago. "I thought they would have a sense of humor about it," says...
...expresses relief in the waning of his sexual desire ("It's as if I've finally been relieved of a tyrannical burden"). It would seem that the only way the old surrealist can shock today's audience is by exposing himself as a discreetly charming gentleman...
...help laughing at Babe's thwarted attempts to hang herself with knitting yarn, or at the speculation over Lenny's secret rendezvous with a Tennessee gentleman. Yet simultaneously, both scenes arouse pity--a comic pathos that only a perceptive and talented playwright like Henley could achieve...
Novelist Laura Z. Hobson (Gentleman's Agreement, Consenting Adult) suggests that the really basic human drives cannot be deterred. Murder, for instance, or war, or the neurotic love of a woman for a man who has hurt her. About the last, Hobson should know. Most of the men in her long life-she is now 83-seem to have turned out faithless or spineless, or both, and she has given them all ample opportunity to prove...
Still, Hobson's book reflects formidable energy and grit, and it ends with an account of a genuine triumph: her stinging 1947 bestseller about antiSemitism, Gentleman's Agreement. Publishing it amounted to breaking a conspiracy of silence and shouting out one of middle-class America's nastiest little secrets. Hobson was undeterred as usual, even by resistance from an unexpected quarter. Among six or eight people whom she consulted before publication, she notes, the general advice was to "go ahead from Christians, and not go ahead from Jews." -By Christopher Porterfield