Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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TIME'S Essay "Looking Askance at Ageism" [March 24] reminds me of a delightful old fellow from Atlanta I met some years back. The future-minded gentleman, then 93, told me he had just purchased a large amount of acreage. When I asked what his plans were, he replied, "Well, I think I'll hold on to it for a few years, then develop...
...preserve a spontaneous sound that just skirts being primitive. The groups rock a little harder than their forebears too. "We were the first band which wanted to combine punk and reggae," says Jerry ("General Dankey") Dammers of the Specials, "because we liked them both." Bass Player Horace ("Sir Horace Gentleman") Panter adds, "Both were rebel music." Notes Jerry: "Humble beginnings, what...
Worries about the collapse of a "gentleman's agreement...
...militants occupying the U.S. embassy and the three at the Foreign Ministry. A United Nations commission, named to study allegations against the deposed Shah and his regime, began hearing witnesses in the Iranian capital. In approving the commission, the U.S. had assumed that Iran, as its part of a "gentleman's agreement," would arrange for early release of the Americans...
...asked to say so in writing, he denied that there was any connection at all between the U.N. hearings and the release of the hostages. Some optimistic officials in Washington and at the U.N. insisted that such a package was still being worked on-it is "a gentleman's agreement," said one of the U.N. envoys -and that Banisadr had to sound tough because he still lacks control over the young militants who hold the hostages. Said Waldheim, in his office during an interview with TIME last Friday: "I am confident that we shall find a solution, though nobody...