Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...East Cambridge gentleman's plea, the council unanimously voted to have the Chief of Police, Commissioner of Public Works, and the Cambridge Redevelopment Authority try to find the vanishing sidewalks...
...volunteer for shopping. We buy $20 worth of food for $18 (the merchants earlier had contributed food outright) and on the way back meet a gentleman who seems to belong to Drunken Faculty to Forget the Whole Mess. Someone whom I think of as a friend threatens to punch me because I am carrying food...
After his graduation from Cambridge with first class honors in English, he taught for a few years at Stowe, in those days an up-and-coming public school. His learning project during the period was gentlemanly idling. With enormous industry and almost no money, he taught himself to hunt, shoot, fish, and handle falcons. He mocked this hunger for accomplishment in a book, written between hunt-club meets, called Burke's Steerage, or the Amateur Gentleman's Introduction to Noble Sports and Pastimes. White was not very good at falconry (goshawks and merlins kept getting away...
...guiltily from the Avatar man too. Momentary pause, the Square beckons, an elderly Japanese gentleman in a grey Sherlock Holmes hat jostles freely and the parade swirls again. A passing van swallows its music splashing choice bits benignly at you so you don't feel left out. "Come on without/ Come on within/ You'll not see nothing like...(grateful to the Great Commercial Prophet holed up in New York, fill in the blanks)...the Mighty Quinn...
From the beginning his characters have been great reminiscers. In The Glass Menagerie Amanda cherishes the "one Sunday afternoon" she entertained "17 gentleman callers." Blanche DuBois reveres the beauty of her father's plantation, Belle Reve. Dying of cancer, Big Daddy recalls his power as king of the Delta. In his earlier plays, Williams would rip apart this Chekhovian mood music with staccato drum bursts of violence. But in recent years he has virtually abandoned violence without discovering a substitute. Drive has succumbed to drift...