Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...closest he came to the rococo sparkle of English portraiture was in his 1767 portrait of Nicholas Boylston, Boston's biggest luxury-goods importer: blue-chinned, sharp-eyed and relaxed in his morning panoply of damask dressing gown, unbuttoned waistcoat (showing the careless ease of the gentleman) and velvet turban. His ships ply the sea behind him, and his arm rests on an account ledger. As art historian Paul Staiti observes in an excellent catalog essay, Copley's clients liked his style because it was so embedded in the world of substance and inventories that had made them what they...
Former Harvard president Derek C. Bok said that Price "was almost the most perfect gentleman I ever dealt with at Harvard...
...remarks to the seniors, Rudenstine related a legend about an English gentleman who had no sailing experience but became an admiral in the British navy because he was "always...
...partly raised in Russia, where his father, an engineer, was designing the St. Petersburg-Moscow railroad for Czar Nicholas I. Doubtless the Russian fixation on rank impressed him; in any case, he began to insist quite early in his life that he was no prosaic Yankee, but a Southern gentleman from Baltimore, Maryland. He enrolled at West Point, but was flunked in 1854 for his cluelessness about chemistry. "Had silicon been a gas," he would say later, "I would have been a major-general...
Former Harvard president Derek C. Bok said that Price "was almost the most perfect gentleman [he] ever dealt with at Harvard...