Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...think it's very important that the city set standards that don't allow Harvard to accept a gentleman's C," said Pitkin. "Harvard is now getting a gentleman...
Thirty years ago, at the opening of The Spy Who Came In from the Cold, the protagonist, Leamas, was defined as a person who could not quite pass for a London clubman, a "man who was not quite a gentleman." Now, early in his new book, we are told that John le Carre's latest alienated loner, Jonathan Pine, though taken for a gentleman, did not in fact go to "that kind of school." A pungent reminder that the real wars Le Carre has been chronicling -- the class war in Britain, and the civil (very civil) war between one side...
...least two kinds of Le Carre admirers: the official reader, who turns the pages avidly to follow the byzantine and brilliant interlacing of plots and identities and places; and the covert reader, who reads between the lines for Le Carre's searching and intense examinations into the counterfeit gentleman, and the divided heart of Englishmen. The official reader responds to the master storyteller whose narratives purr by with the smooth whoosh of a Bentley; the secret reader finds him the most interesting English novelist alive for his discussion of the quest for absolutes in an ambiguous, secular...
...party, he senses that "something terrible" actually did befall him: the paralyzing fear of risk that made his outwardly orderly life an emotional wasteland. It paralyzes him again, at the moment when his second- chance love is deciding whether to return to an abusive husband. Kimbrough, ever the gentleman, remains to comfort others: a female friend grieving over widowhood and a gay male stranger sobbing over a lost lover and a dead dog. They have known love and pain and embrace both. He keeps life at handshake distance -- every life, even...
Fletcher was a special concentrator in Music and Dramatic Arts, whose senior thesis was a musical he was writing, directing and producing. Entitled "The Errols," it was the story of a Southern white gentleman, Lawrence Errols, and his mulatto grandson, Cedric, learning to love each other despite their differences in race...