Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Gone are the days of the Harvard "gentleman...
Gifford, too, has a reputation as a gentleman. He is so devoted to third wife Kathie Lee and their two children (Cody, 7, and Cassidy, 3) that he regularly charters a plane after Monday-night games so that he can be in their Greenwich, Conn., home when they wake up Tuesday mornings. According to a story in Johnson's own words in this week's Globe, it was on a commercial flight in October 1993 that she and Gifford began a flirtatious relationship that continued over the phone. "Some people would call our talks phone sex," she writes. "But that...
...case, the student was not entitled to cakes and ale, nor should he have worn a sword because the rationales for those laws no longer applied. In other words, along with the swordwearing statute is an understood rationale: Students must wear swords because swords are essential accouterments for a gentleman and are necessary for self-defense. Since the rationales no longer hold, the argument would go, the law need not be enforced. But that's just not the way it works. No matter their justifications, laws remain laws and rights remain rights until they are repealed or amended based...
...really the other two actors who took the drama to its emotional climax. Gotlieb as Laura communicated primarily through eloquent looks before the arrival of the Gentleman Caller; but opened up with marvelous expressiveness in the tete-a-tete with her former high school "crush." In face, voice, and gesture, she touchingly evoked the painful shyness and self-consciousness of the disabled girl who is given one brief chance to bloom. Yet she also possessed an air of unexpected (and deeply affecting) grace and dignity in the most heartbreaking moment of the play...
Darwin began as a gentleman naturalist. It was in, and for, the working out of his great idea that he became a specialist in zoology, taxonomy, geology, paleontology, animal breeding, plant breeding, embryology, animal behavior, human behavior, sociology and ecology (a discipline he essentially created). Einstein, too, was guided in his scientific work by a single vision. So was Edward Gibbon, who described the guiding idea of his multivolume historical and literary masterpiece, The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, in a single short sentence: "I have described the triumph of barbarism and religion." These examples suggest that someone...