Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...play opens with Sara scheming to marry a young American aristocrat who is sick in bed at the inn. Sara is nursing him back to health. She hates her father because she is convinced his wastefulness prevents her from rising in the world. She hopes marriage to the young gentleman will free her from the poverty of her wretched life...
...plot of Poet centers around Sara's schemes for marriage. It is an involved plot, and the tedious verbal explanations it requires account for much of the play's weakness. Because we never see the young gentleman, a good deal of important off-stage action must be explained...
...gentleman of leisure, who wishes to breakfast regularly at noon without eliminating classes from his life, faces a few problems. The omnipresent Mr.-------- cooperates with Miss----------- in giving Greek Hhf, Greek Prose Composition. Meeting on Tuesday at 2 p.m. it leaves seven mornings and six afternoons a week uncluttered. And more cultural vacuums can be filled on Thursday in Celtic 227 which deals in poetry of the Gogynfeirdd...
...Royal Irish Constabulary; his mother was a farm girl, a deeply pious woman whose "religious melancholy withered everything it touched, like a sirocco." The ambition of both of them was to see their three sons reach "the highest state in life that anyone could achieve"-that of a Gentleman. No one of the brothers quite made it to Gentleman, but two of them did well enough so that the family no longer had to "think small beer of themselves." One became a priest, the other a revenue inspector in the British Civil Service. The youngest, Sean, opted for writing...
Explosive Performance. For Davis, 57, a jowly gentleman who moved up to chairman when Founder Rank retired two years ago, Rank's most spectacular sideline has been its entry into Xerox duplicating equipment. Searching for profitable ventures after the diversification decision, Davis in 1956 agreed to bankroll the U.S.'s struggling Xerox Corp. (then called Haloid Co.) in return for rights to make and market its duplicating machines outside the Western Hemisphere. Xerox, of course, has been a huge success. Result: Rank Xerox last year accounted for a third of the Organisation's profits. The company this...