Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Which is a political miracle if you remember that Jordan disrupted Detroit's dynasty, with a little help from Jackson, who taught him the importance of limiting himself for the good of the Bulls. Alan Jones, 30, also of Detroit, rants against Chicago but deifies Jordan: "He's a gentleman. He's not a boaster. He could say, 'I'm the best thing since fried ice cream.' But that's not part of him." Though passionate, Jordan fans aren't necessarily the most articulate...
...beneath Stein's quirky urban-gentleman exterior beats the heart of a Washington insider's Washington insider. A former president of the D.C. bar, Stein is the man politicians turn to when their dignity is on the line, the issue is delicate or the stakes are high. He represented Oregon Senator Robert Packwood when he was charged with sexual misconduct. Reagan press secretary James Brady hired Stein when he filed several lawsuits after being paralyzed by bullets meant for his boss. And when a special prosecutor was needed in 1984 to investigate Reagan-aide Ed Meese, it was Stein...
...March 20, Gentleman's Agreement, a drama about anti-Semitism starring Gregory Peck, takes the Academy Award for Best Picture beating out The Bishop's Wife and Miracle on 34th Street. Other Academy Awards go to Ronald Colman for Best Actor in A Double Life, Loretta Young as Best Actress in The Farmer's Daughter, Edmund Gwenn as Best Supporting Actor in Miracle on 34th Street and Celeste Holm for Best Supporting Actress in Gentleman's Agreement. Elia Kazan won Best Director for his work on Gentleman's Agreement...
...through such current luminaries as John Glenn, William Bratton and Wendy's founder Dave Thomas. Freemasonry probably began formally in the 1600s as an English gentleman's club, but by 1717 had evolved into an engine of the European Enlightenment. Its members were committed to egalitarianism, civic participation and other ideals expressed through tropes of the stoneworkers trade: the square for straightforward virtue; the compass to circumscribe one's passions; the plumb line to stay upright. There was little religion but much ritual, which enraged churchmen and engaged conspiracy theorists, who still flood the Web with Masonic villainies...
Everyone in the state department is trying to knife me in the back, except for Bill Bundy," Henry Kissinger grumbled after becoming Nixon's National Security Adviser. "He is still enough of a gentleman to knife me in the chest." So true, even now. In his new book, A Tangled Web: The Making of Foreign Policy in the Nixon Presidency (Hill and Wang; 647 pages; $35), the patrician Bundy is still inserting the knife in a gentle, gentlemanly way. His title comes from Sir Walter Scott's lines about the "tangled web we weave/ When first we practice to deceive...