Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Burton gets little chance to display his acting. Instead of watching the deterioration of a gentleman and a scholar, we are treated to a tedious string of ghouls and black magic, hot and voluptuous women--all of which loses any excitement after the first half-hour...
...Wilson has been at Harvard for many years. He must offer something. He does. There is no greater gentleman in the Harvard Department of Athletics than Floyd Wilson. He is sincere and straight-forward. His ball-players respect him even in defeat. Few men--let alone coaches--would have the restraint to talk to someone who had in effect publicly called for their resignation. Yet when I asked him to do me a favor this afternoon, he answered affirmatively, unhesitatingly...
...serious reports that VC higher-ups vacation here too. The unnatural quiet of this place almost becomes repugnant--all you have to do is read the Saigon Post or listen to the radio to know that Da Lat is leading a charmed life. IVS hired an excellent old gentleman to tutor us for six and a half hours a day, a Mr. Thanh, Paris-educated and clothed in a French suit, beret and scarf...
...just how in hell this could happen in the U.S. Navy." Alexander promised Admiral Thomas Moorer, the Chief of Naval Operations, that if his cause failed, he would request reassignment from the coveted New Jersey command. When the bill came due, Alexander paid it like an officer and a gentleman...
...have a perfect spiritual union with his beloved, but he fails to specify one important detail and thus ends up as a nun. Finally, his wishes spent, he throws himself on Cook's mercy; in a resolution that would have sickened Goethe and Marlowe, the Devil inexplicably turns gentleman and calls off the deal...