Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Epps explains that he only made the call as part of a "gentleman's agreement" he had struck with the DA's office in hopes of preventing the arrest of Harvard students. And within minutes of Stork and Hagen's arrival at the police station, Epps was there to help bail them...
...hero of The Second Coming, Percy's fifth novel, is emphatically both. Will Barrett is a middle-aged version of the younger character who starred in The Last Gentleman. He has inherited a fortune ("About 50 or 60 million," he guesses) from his late wife Marion. Retired early from his Wall Street law practice, he lives on his 10,000 mountainous acres in North Carolina, dabbles in his wife's philanthropies and plays a lot of golf. On the links, he has lately developed a nasty slice and the habit of blacking out and falling down. The problem...
...including that of Defense Minister. Some of his colleagues regard him as an untrustworthy opportunist because he has been known to switch allegiances within party factions. The third prospect, former Foreign Minister Kiichi Miyazawa, 60, is respected as an intellectual but considered by some as too much of a gentleman to be able to control the factions...
...named Meg, a pet who rides in his coat pocket and turns out to be the kind of "familiar" (a supernatural spirit-animal form) familiar to witchcraft. He learns that he has modest occult powers himself and eventually converses with one of "the Purpose's" top executives, a gentleman, polite enough but obviously not an Englishman. When this personage inquires as to the source of Alfgif's powers, the reply comes: "No power at all beyond the concentration of the master craftsman...
...tennis. I have won the big tournaments, the titles I wanted to win so that I could become a great champion." Whatever the reasons, Borg's fellow pros find him a gracious competitor. Says Tom Gullickson, who has beaten Borg once in their three meetings: "He's a real gentleman. He doesn't make excuses when he loses. Bjorn wins with class and loses with class...