Word: gentlemanly
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...Confucius was The Master, after all, and his sayings reflect disdain for both the humble peasant and his opinion. "You must practice the manner of gentlemen, not that of the common people," he told one student. "The gentleman is dignified, but never haughty; common people are haughty, but never dignified." As for his Way, The Master said, "The common people can be made to follow it; they cannot be made to understand...
Armchair jocks are not the only ones who remember Fitzsimmons, however. One insider who should know, Tom Sanders, regrets the senior's decision to sit it out. "The gentleman can play basketball," Sanders said before the Penn-Princeton weekend. "We had expected to have him back in the thick of the league race...
...boss was an old-style Carolina gentleman, revamped. He had gotten tired of his retirement from the realty business, learned to say "Negro" instead of "nigra," at least to black people, and gone to work for the government. His face was red and full, topped by short white hair. His first name was Roscoe, but he very much preferred "R.C." so of course we called him "Arsey." He was continually sucking the life out of a stubby Raleigh--it seemed like he smoked a carton...
Equal Flair. Frazier need not have worried. Gentleman George is not only an ornamental Boston legend but a social commentator whose tart views reach an audience far beyond Boston. Besides writing four columns a week for the Globe, he discourses once a week on the CBS Morning News show and again on a local Boston TV program. At 62 he is one of the oldest writers to get an assignment from Rolling Stone. Most journalists his age have the years gentle their pace or prejudices. Frazier is as eager as ever to flay those he thinks pompous...
Fade out of sight and mind as quickly as possible," says a gentleman to a work house fugitive in that early book. The welfare state does not talk that honestly to Mrs. Kavanagh and Mrs. Biddulph, but the message remains pretty much the same...