Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most people think of crew as a gentleman's sport for preppies and upwardly mobile types and for the most part that's an accurate description of Ivy League crew. But, where I learned to row, at the West Side Rowing Club, in Buffalo, N.Y., the aristocratic aura was conspicuously absent. The clubhouse, a beautiful old wood building, was situated on Bird Island in between the Niagara River and the Black Rock canal about a half mile from where the Peace Bridge ran over into Canada. A half mile in the other direction was Buffalo's sewage treatment plant...
...have not said that characters in my book are drawn from people I worked with at the companies named in the TIME review of my novel Something Happened [Oct. 14]. If anything, the opposite is true, and I so stated to your correspondent. The single exception was a gentleman, now deceased, for whom I did work when I was at TIME and with whom I enjoyed a friendly and enriching association, as I do with everyone...
Racing in the Head of the Charles is like playing croquet. It has all the airs of a "gentleman's sport," but the winners are always the most cut-throat competitors...
Michael Gury seems somewhat stiff in the opening act, perhaps because he is trying to assume the reserved manners of the nineteenth century gentleman. His portrayal of Simon as a greedy, emotionally disturbed young man is otherwise as precise as the script allows. It's bothersome that we're never given more than a simplistic, pseudoFreudian explanation for his yearning to return to mother and childhood. His ambivalent desire for escape is so key to the movement of the play that it should have more solid roots. Ann Varley is wellcast in the part of the young wife. Her Irish...
...rules expert and lawyer, plus a video-tape camera to record all races for replay. "Expert advocacy," says Bond, "is as much a part of racing now as a boat." All this may offend the guardians of the Cup, but Bond is not concerned. "To say this is a gentleman's sport is to be under illusions," he insists. "Those days are gone...