Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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FIRST PARADOX: Barry Lyndon, a story of an 18th century Irish gentleman-rogue, is the first novel of a great 19th century writer, William Makepeace Thackeray. It shows early signs of a genius that would nourish only after creative struggle and personal adversity. In time, this forgotten book becomes the basis for the tenth feature film by a well-established, well-rewarded 20th century artist-Director Stanley Kubrick. In it, he demonstrates the qualities that eluded Thackeray: singularity of vision, mature mastery of his medium, near-reckless courage in asserting through this work a claim not just to the distinction...
...betrays not the slightest moral or intellectual self-awareness. Born poor but with a modest claim to gentleman's rank, he never doubts his right to rise to the highest ranks of the nobility. Nor does he ever seem to question the various means by which he pursues his end: army desertion, card sharping, contracting a loveless marriage in order to acquire a fortune. As for time, it means nothing to him. He squanders it, as he does money, in pursuit of pleasure and the title he is desperate...
...striped gentleman rose to his feet. "Sir!" he intoned. "Would you say that the new American institutions that you have so carefully described took the place of the established church which you Americans chose to eliminate--so that your Supreme Court became a kind of papacy...
...when blue blood rather than brains was the basic criteria for admission to Harvard, the Manter Hall School would tutor applicants until they could pass the special entrance exam administered by the College. Once admitted, Manter Hall would tutor them in their courses, to ensure at least a gentleman...
Down by the bay, San Francisco's Marina Green was filled with people shaking off the damp of the past few rainy weeks. There were joggers, dog walkers, Frisbee flingers and one lanky gentleman intently reading on the grass. No one bothered to peer over his shoulder. And that was just as well. James Louis Browning Jr., 42, the U.S. Attorney prosecuting both Sara Jane Moore and Patty Hearst, was studying a document recovered from the house where Patty was captured. Why bring such sensitive reading to the park? "Well, I wanted to get some sun," said Browning...