Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...fistful of his hair. More sympathetic episodes are artfully interspersed. In the second circle, for instance, Dante meets Paolo and Francesca and tells the touching story of their tragic love. Unhappily, the canticle concludes with a large and, to modern readers, faintly ludicrous letdown: Satan. The Old Gentleman looks like King Kong and does nothing but sit in his pit and chomp on Judas Iscariot...
...young lawyer, Royall Tyler, met Abigail--or "Nabby," as her family called her -- in Braintree in 1782. Tyler was already known as something of a writer, and Mrs. Adams wrote her husband, "I am not acquainted with any young Gentleman whose attainments in literature are equal to his." Adams was far from taken with the idea of Tyler as a son-in-law. "I don't like the subject at all," he wrote back. "I am not looking out for a Poet, not a Professor of belle Letters... My Children will have nothing but their Liberty and the Right...
...elderly, respectable looking gentleman walking around with his head buried in his hands this week, it's probably an official of the Harvard Department of Athletics...
...alumnus and faculty adviser of Delta Upsilon, I would rather have a black or yellow gentleman for a fraternity brother than a white jerk; and I do have brothers from all three races. But when any outsider tries to force my own or any other fraternity [June 25] to change its constitution or take in anyone whom it does not want, then he has me to fight...
...Rome but Ballerina Anastasia Stevens, 22, whom he met in 1962 while she was the only American ever to dance with Moscow's Bolshoi Ballet. So off they waded into the Via Veneto's Dolce Vita, having a capital time dining at George's where no gentleman is allowed without a coat (an exception was made for Evgeny), doing a "slow twist" at the Club 84, and closing the swank Café de Paris at 3:30 a.m. Gossips buzzed that the poet was resuming a romance. "No, we are only old friends," said...