Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...will ask you what you think of Nixon's economic policies. You will probably not understand those policies, may not even know they exist, and certainly will have nothing very useful or original to say, but people will listen. And you will be on the way to becoming a gentleman. You are being coopted...
Humor has not monopolized Freud's life. Now 49, he is or has been a gentleman jockey, a race-car driver, an apprentice chef at the Dorchester Hotel, a cabaret owner, a trustee of London's Playboy Club and the author of a singularly uncharming children's book about a boy named Grimble whose parents forget things like birthdays and breakfasts. As a journalist, he has written for the lofty Financial Times and the lusty News of the World, as well as others in between...
...YEARS AGO, Jimmy Connors (20 year old winner of Longwood, 1973) was a winner in the making. Straight out of Bellevue, Ill. Connors had money, but he was not a rich boy. Because Connors needed to win. A rich boy is reared in the tradition of the gentleman sportsman--where it is gauche to want to win too badly, and where giving all to one sport at the exclusion of the others is missing out on the good life. He doesn't need to win because he is already there. But Connors was brought up under the pressures...
Scientific Job. The absence of verifiable navigational calculations also discredited Cook's story. Yet in 1911, Peary's records struggled past a congressional subcommittee review. Despite serious reservations, none of the Congressmen were eager to question Peary's words as a gentleman and Navy officer. Such was the atmosphere in the days when exploration was a patriotic sport and not a scientific...
...m.p.h. raft. The idea is to pique the curiosity of the local townfolk with the circus tent and catch their interest with oldtime medicine-show acts in the first half of the program-a jerky juggling act, for example, or the wonders of "Miraculo" the Magician, an exotic gentleman "just returned from the remote and distant shores of Long Island...