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...true leader. He's a true gentleman...
Mandela, as someone once observed, is a combination of African nobility and British aristocracy. He has the punctilious manners of a Victorian gentleman. (His aides sometimes chastise him for rising from his chair to greet everyone who approaches him.) His patrician nature is on display most prominently in his dealings with President F.W. de Klerk, whom he has often treated as a kind of bumbling equerry. At the end of the first day of negotiations for a new constitution in 1991, Mandela gave De Klerk a withering dressing down: "Even the head of an illegitimate, discredited minority regime...
Hitler called the democratically elected Weimar government weak, referring to its again patriarch. Paul von Hindenburg, as "the old gentleman." Last week, Zhirinovsky said the Russian government is "in its final agony," suggesting that President Boris Yeltsin is sick and due for retirement...
Melody (Daniel J. Travanti) is a displaced Irish gentleman drunk. Having fought with the Duke of Wellington in Spain at the Battle of Talavera, the anniversary of which he celebrates on the day of the play by dressing up in his old uniform and demanding a feast, Melody regards himself as being passed up by history...
Which brings us to the present day. The "greasy grinds" have been replaced by pre-meds. The debutantes are old and gray. Communism is dead. But the mentality associated with the "Gentleman's C" persists. As Mansfield puts it, "We've somehow replaced the 'Gentleman's C' with the ungentlemanly...