Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Betsy is replete with flashbacks that garishly, superficially "explain" the edgy relationship between Grandpa and Grandson Hardeman and also demonstrate, finally, why the old boy likes Angelo so much. For, you see, the old gentleman himself got around a bit in his day-notably into the marital bed of his son, the closet queen. Turns out it was witnessing these incestuous goings-on and his weakling father's subsequent suicide that made Grandson Hardeman such a misery to himself and his coworkers...
...Karenni agent in Mae Sariang, a small Thai border town, has operated there for nearly 30 years, almost with the rank of honorary consul. A gray-haired gentleman, he emerges from his teakwood house in cardigan and sarong. Inside, on a wall, is a photograph of him shaking hands with a U.S. ambassador, and a U.S. medal for services to the hill tribes. "Goodness gracious," he says in mellifluous Raj English, when asked about the medal, "I don't know friend from foe. We've got to do or die. We've got to keep the wolves...
...scarlet dragoon's uniform, he preens before a mirror and loftily mouths stanzas from Byron. Playing the highborn gentleman, though fooling no one, Con charges over the countryside on a thoroughbred mare while reducing his daughter to a barroom slavey. He sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade...
...Gentleman and scholar, diplomat and master painter, Peter Paul Rubens was that rare artist, at home with himself and his society. His orchestrations of the Christian, the mythic and the historical have endured as voluptuous celebrations of human passion and faith. Marking the 400th anniversary of his birth, Rubens by Frans Baudouin (Abrams; 405 pages; $60) pays rich tribute to the Flemish master with a gallery of 278 illustrations and a meticulous text tracing his stylistic development and the temper of his times...
Some of the hidden drama in Plimpton's life no doubt revolves around how he was able to take a gentleman's preoccupation with the proper use of leisure and turn it into journalistic subject matter capable of engaging his abilities to the fullest. Shadow Box is another Plimpton tour de force, and a vindication of one American boy's determination to never grow...