Word: gentlemanly
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...known as a courtly Virginia gentleman, but Sen. John Warner, the powerful chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, is playing hardball. The 79-year-old Republican Senator has just ratcheted up the pressure on the Defense Department to come clean on what happened at Haditha. On Tuesday Warner fired off a stern letter to Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, announcing that he wanted to hold hearings on the attack last Nov. 19, in which members of a Marine company are accused of gunning down two dozen innocent civilians in the village northwest of Baghdad. The first witness Warner wants before...
...Updike spoke I looked from him to the crowd, and the scene was evocative of something I couldn't quite place. Then, as he came to his conclusion - "booksellers, defend your lonely forts" - it hit me: a white haired gentleman trying to halt something new because it runs against something established, urging the retrograde upon people who should know more than any others that retrogression is patently not in their interest. Novelist as colonist! A governor speaking to his soldiers. Guard your lonely forts indeed...
...deep; incentives for secondary fields; and discouragement of honors programs. Money is dirty: Students preparing for law, medicine, or business—including many athletes—are treated as outside the liberal arts tradition. Yet the new curricular proposals sustain that great intellectual tradition in name only. The gentleman amateur, dilettantish and unmoved by the financial exigencies of real life, is the ideal student of Harvard’s new curriculum...
...average age of courtiers has gone down; their professional qualifications have gone up. Instead of being filled by discreet inquiries at a gentleman's club, the latest assistant private secretary's post was publicly advertised, and attracted over 400 applications. It went to an experienced financier. Focus groups probe whether staff are happy in their jobs; salaries have increased; there are "team away days" and rotations of staff to and from government departments and private industry, from which increasing numbers of senior managers are now drawn. "I think people expect we're very traditional and hierarchical," says Elisabeth Hunka...
...difference is the presence of an inspiring teacher. But Pierre Dulaine (Banderas) isn't a tough-talker in the Stand and Deliver or Coach Carter mold. Dianne Houston's script paints Pierre as a gentleman of the old school, who stands when a woman walks by and opens the door for her. "It's called courtesy," he explains to a boy who thinks the new guy is a Martian...