Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...California vineyards, where harvesting was under way last week, Coca-Cola's departure from the business was quietly welcomed by competitors, who resented the company's aggressive marketing tactics. "Coke wasn't a gentleman in a gentleman's industry," said Emanuel Goldman, a partner of Montgomery Securities in San Francisco. It is expected that the tough advertising that Coca-Cola fostered will probably end. Meanwhile, wine prices are likely to start increasing, largely because of a predicted small 1983 harvest. Seagram's may be getting deeper into wine at the perfect moment...
...Robert Louis Stevenson saw him, James Durie, the Master of Ballantrae, dressed entirely in black and had the bearing "of one who was a fighter and accustomed to command." His brother Henry "had the essence of a gentleman, but... he fell short of the ornamental." What is more, the family was a bit hard-pressed for funds. Something has been lost in the translation. As elegantly portrayed by Michael York, 41, and Richard Thomas, 32, in a three-hour CBS-TV version to be aired next year, James and Henry seem to have been modeled less on the hardy Duries...
...that Italian custom doubtless did so, in large part, to impress their neighbors with their sophistication. Evolution itself is a process of rising above one's origins and one's station." The writer Sébastien Chamfort located what is surely the ultimate snob, a nameless French gentleman: "A fanatical social climber, observing that all round the Palace of Versailles it stank of urine, told his tenants and servants to come and make water round his château...
...group agree. Guitarist Andy Summers: "Sting is the most consummate writer of pop songs in the group, so we wind up doing more of his songs than anybody else's." Copeland: "The only thing I envy is Sting's voice and his songwriting ability." The gentleman in question: 'I'm the best songwriter. It's as simple as that...
...many in the television industry do. CBS's Harry Reasoner was among the few who tried to put things in perspective, cautioning, "I don't think Frank would like to be pictured as the last of a vanishing breed." But, he quickly added, "What he was was a gentleman--and there are not many of those in any profession...