Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Lord Killanin's handling of the Taiwan controversy [July 19] clearly revealed that gentleman's ability to forge a mediocre twist to a Caesarean dictum; He came, he saw, he capitulated...
Since they cannot crack Broadway, Harry and Walter decide the next best thing would be to break into a bank vault. Having met a notorious gentleman thief (Michael Caine) during a prison stretch, they filch the plans for his next job and try to beat him to it. Their unlikely accomplices: a radical newspaper editor (Diane Keaton) and her band of ragged reformers, who want to use the loot to set up a milk fund for New York City's poor...
...encounter between the Virginia gentleman and what he called "a mixed multitude of people" was dramatic. At first, disgruntled soldiers went home in shoals and there was a wave of courts-martial. A number of officers were broken. Thirty and 40 lashes for insubordination became a regular punishment. To Washington's chagrin, one of the few southern units in his Army, a company of Virginia riflemen, rebelled against discipline and had to be surrounded and disarmed. "Such a dirty, mercenary spirit pervades the whole," the exasperated general wrote in a rare display of open anger, "that I should...
...against "every species of extravagance and dissipation," it seemed for a while that the delegates had unwittingly aided the enemy. Patriots felt bound to observe the ban while British occupying forces ignored it, thus turning the theatre into a vehicle of Loyalist propaganda. In Boston, for instance. General John ("Gentleman Johnny") Burgoyne transformed Faneuil Hall, the Patriot meetinghouse, into a playhouse. There he mounted productions of his own works, notably the scurrilous anti-American satire The Blockade of Boston. (Justice was poetically served, however, when the British actor-soldiers were unceremoniously routed from the stage in mid-performance last January...
Mozart's Standards. So is Glyndebourne. Founded in 1934 by John Christie, a wealthy country gentleman, as a diversion for his opera-singing wife Audrey Mildmay, it is now run by Son George. He surveys the audience, in the obligatory evening dress to reinforce the sense of occasion, picnicking on the 640-acre estate's broad lawns during the long early-evening intermission. Smoked salmon, páté, cold chicken and white wine or champagne are the staple fare. No wonder second acts always seem better. Says Jonathan Miller, one of the festival's visiting producers...