Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...instead of a poet, he could play all the best parts in a pageant of America past. He has the face for roles as a Confederate general, a turn-of-the-century president of Harvard, or even the most distinguished presence in the hobo jungle, the man everyone calls "Gentleman Jack...
Such demonstrations of relevance in the curriculum at least illustrate that at today's Harvard the idea of a gentleman's education as a means of marking him off from the masses and guaranteeing his own future more abundant life, with no reference to wider concerns, is little more than a shriveled relic from some pre-democratic incarnation of our present society--even more shriveled than in the 1950's, I think. Harvard has not adopted the extreme activist view that every course must deal with the latest crises, or that those which do should be managed as base camps...
Soccer is traditionally crude, and it attracts roughs, drunks and roarers. It cannot be discussed in pubs without passion and obscenity. It is certainly not a gentleman's game. Even its subtlety and skill have failed to recommend...
Gittis becomes involved with an amiable patrician (John Huston), a gentleman rancher whose face is creased with forced jollity, a stranger to scruple. His daughter (Faye Dunaway), the water commissioner's widow, is troubled and dangerous, and Gittis falls for her. But whether he is really drawn to her or only uses her to advance his investigation is never made clear. The widow's part is a plum, and Dunaway does well with it whenever she relaxes and stops pushing, stops acting. A lot of her scenes are meant to be played big, however, and for these Dunaway...
...proud that my column writing has been not brilliant but sensible and fair. I have an instinct for the center. I'm not a passionate man.' When we left, Stew climbed out of bed, hitched up his blue pajamas and shook hands. Always the gentleman...