Word: gentlemanly
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...when blue blood rather than brains was the basic criteria for admission to Harvard, the Manter Hall School would tutor applicants until they could pass the special entrance exam administered by the College. Once admitted, Manter Hall would tutor them in their courses, to ensure at least a gentleman...
Wallace and Wife Cornelia were received politely wherever they went. He had chats of roughly half an hour each with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson (whom Wallace adjudged "a fine gentleman"); Tory Party Leader Margaret Thatcher ("a lovely talk with a lovely lady"); Belgian Prime Minister Leo Tindemans; Italian Premier Aldo Moro and President Giovanni Leone ("I said I recognized the contribution Italy has made to society in general, especially in our country"). But Wallace could not get an audience with Pope Paul...
...tour, there are obligatory stops: Esalen, ESP and the elusive Carlos Castaneda, whom Goodman traps briefly in a stair well. "I'm Carlos' double," the gentleman insists before scooting off. Indeed, many people are not what they seem to be. Swami Hal, for example, is a 260-lb. mystic who runs a kind of Boys' Town ashram in the Northwest wilderness and talks like a dead...
...have been an ardent member of the Ku Klux Klan, and when he arrived in New Orleans, a friend of his later remembered, he was "the handsomest young man in all New Orleans...the best dressed man, who set the fashion for the male population...the perfect Southern gentleman." At around that time, he worked full-time in an administrative post called adjutant general for the United Confederate Veterans, an organization that had a hard time extracting from the Civil War anything worthy of nostagia. It groped toward finding a usable past by erecting monuments to dead Confederate Army generals...
...this production succeeds, however, much of the credit belongs to O.C. Walker, who plays Jim O'Connor, the emissary from reality who is Laura's long-hoped for gentleman caller. Unlike O'Neill and DeLorme, who are occasionally stagy, Walker is totally convincing as the "deceptive rainbow" in whose person seems to lurk the treasure trove with which the Wingfields plan to buy escape. O'Connor's scene with Laura, the climax of the play, is by far the best in this production...