Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Hunted Past. How he fared he told in the final issue of the Bell. "Having been in the U.S. before, I took it the visa would be readily forthcoming . . . I am preeminently the aging, kindly gentleman that should pass in & out of any county unnoticed." Actually, he was not that Milquetoasty: he had fought for the republic in 1918, been caught and condemned to death, escaped by setting fire to the jail. One of his novels (The Way It Was With Them) was chosen a book of-the-month (1928) by the Catholic Book Club of America...
Other ideas have disappeared from Cambridge since Henry Adams and 1871, but not the absence of ideals implicit in the reply of the gentleman from Chicago. Harvard College is worth a great many different things to different people in 1948, but there are few undergraduates beyond their Sophomore year who could answer: "I am here because I want to learn, and I am learning." Most men would have no answer at all, or they might say they are at Harvard because they have nothing else they would rather...
Thanks to your excellent article on Toscanini [TIME, April 26], a great musical luminary has become, in addition, a kindly old gentleman with great charm. TIME has outdone itself...
Ransom's students have learned that he expects to be treated only as "one gentleman among others." Says Tate: "I think he was a great teacher by not being...
...middle of the Handel Concerto Grosso in B-Flat, which opened the concert by the Chamber Orchestra last night, the gentleman sitting behind me remarked in a loud whisper, "You really can't beat the Classics for beauty!" I cannot help agreeing with him, particularly when the works of Handel, Bach, and Mozart are performed as competently as they were then...