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Perhaps so, but they were something to Barnes, even though he wasn't at all the gentleman that Annenberg is. In the meantime, the voice you hear muttering as you revel in your first sight of the Barnes paintings may not be an acoustiguide. It could be the livid shade of the antiseptic millionaire, undeterred by the artgoing public's exclamations of delight...
...really care if Ripken posts .300 this year. With all of professional baseball's problems--imagined and otherwise--here's one gentleman we shouldn't be complaining about...
...Gentleman" Jim Jeffords, those fleeting 15 minutes of fame had finally arrived. A part-time Civil War buff who just happens to be about the most liberal Republican in the U.S. Senate, Jeffords sat at his peaceful mountaintop farmhouse near Burlington, Vermont, last week taking half- desperate telephone calls from the likes of Vice President Al Gore, Education Secretary Dick Riley, Labor chief Robert Reich and Health and Human Services Secretary Donna Shalala. All were calling to persuade Jeffords to vote for Bill Clinton's embattled economic stimulus package when it comes up for a vote this week. The White...
What went wrong? Trillin, a New Yorker staff writer, sets out to find the truth, armed only with his wit and a handful of clues. En route Trillin recalls a time when striving was considered something a gentleman just didn't do. After all, why should he? Postgraduate privileges were guaranteed to go along with his Yale sheepskin. And then came the '60s: the Vietnam War, the civil rights struggle, the sexual revolution. "There is a common feeling among people my age," Trillin says, "that somehow the rules got changed in the middle of the game...
...gist of Jendi Reiter's argument ("A Gentleman's 'B+'", March 15, p. 2) seems to be that Harvard students (including herself, we are to presume) are so wonderful that we, your instructors, should give you all high grades in order to make you happy and to help you get the good jobs you deserve. Her remarks, lacking even at iota of the self-critical altitude which Harvard should (but often doesn't) instill in its students, closely resemble the arguments put forth by Sean Becker of the U.C. during March 11's IOP panel discussion on grade inflation...