Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Gentleman Detective
...Along with TIME Book Reviewer Martha Duffy, I deplore the apparent demise of the English gentleman-detective [Feb. 1]. But I must rebut her dismissal of Dame Agatha's prose as more "careless" than Miss Allingham's. Christie people are somehow believable people whom one has met before-for good...
Such being the case, we hope that the centennial year is to inaugurate the era of good feeling between Harvard and Yale. The duello is a custom instituted by gentlemen, and presupposes a code of honor. Duels are ever polite, for the consent of a gentleman to measure swords is in itself a compliment to his adversary, and implies a certain parity of position and sympathy of sentiment. We hope, then, that the future contests between Yale and Harvard will not be marred by the expression of any feeling less creditable than honorable emulation. The students of Yale must certainly...
...bureaucracy," he says. Morton has always been a mover within established systems. A Yale graduate, he successfully managed his Kentucky family's milling business and one of his older brother Thruston's campaigns for Senator. In the early 1950s, he moved to Maryland to be a gentleman farmer, but in 1962 he decided to run for Congress. Affable and articulate, he soon became a popular legislator, serving first on the Interior and later on the Ways and Means committees. In those jobs, he says, he became a confirmed believer in the "committee system," a faith that is likely...
...context than when you set them down years later as autobiography. However, your explanation that Ganin was closer in time to the details than you were as an autobiographer is too hasty. May I direct your attention to Ada, a bestseller about time and memory in which an elderly gentleman conjures up his distant past with the most palpable details imaginable...