Word: gentleman
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...Take the Lead” struck a chord for me. I saw a clip on television of a gentleman in a suit [Pierre Dulaine] teaching kids in inner city schools how to ballroom dance. What I loved most about the story is that he paired them up by height. Kids who wouldn’t talk in the cafeteria had to touch each other, hold each other, respect each other. He was teaching them life skills. If a kid is hunched over with his pants hanging down, his self-esteem is affected, it’s different than...
...than a good argument. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles?intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud...
...also proof of how messy democracy can be. In Belarus, just several days before President Alexander Lukashenko ordered his storm troopers to meet the flowers and colored balloons of a peaceful people's march with clubs, tear gas and stun grenades, I happened to overhear a Western observer. The gentleman, apparently Italian, was admiring the impeccable organization of Lukashenko's election: all so orderly, just like in Switzerland, he enthused. Well, yes, order is admirable - didn't the trains run on time under Mussolini, which doesn't always happen in Italy under democracy? That's the eternal problem: democracy...
...than a good scrap. After the writer Sergei Aksakov bought the Abramtsevo country estate in 1843, it soon grew into an informal club for Slavophiles - intellectual gentry who demanded that Russia shun Western capitalism and return to her Slavic origins. But Aksakov, best known for his trilogy, A Russian Gentleman, extended his hospitality to pro-Western thinkers too, ensuring lively debates involving such literary luminaries as Fathers and Sons author Ivan Turgenev and writer Alexander Gertsen. The writer Nikolai Gogol, whose works reflected Russia's vagaries and antagonisms, was a regular participant. It was here that Gogol first read aloud...
...They say they can spot a Brioni suit at a distance because of the shape of the buttonhole, the gentle roll of the jacket collar and the light-handed topstitching. Both say they enjoy the contact with clients and have got more comfortable with the unusual requests, like the gentleman at a Paris hotel fitting who needed a special pocket. "Waist level, something heavy. He didn't say, and I didn't ask, but I assume it was a handgun," says Lovino...