Word: gentlemanly
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...seventy-one, his poetic voice is strong and his speaking voice mellow, as if he just sipped a special elixir--tea and honey, perhaps. Sitting in Robert Fitzgerald's office before his afternoon reading at Boylston auditorium. Tate looks every bit the Southern gentleman--debonair, impeccably dressed, a hint of Basil Ransom, years after The Bostonians, but with the high forehead and thin, tapered fingers reserved for artists and poets...
...Behind the talk of loss and emptiness, there is a voice that speaks more tellingly than talk. It is that of Robert Anderson, best known for Tea and Sympathy. It is literate. It is-horrors!-the voice of a gentleman, someone who has been taught from childhood to uphold certain standards of decency...
...takes talent to recognize genius. Marcel Proust caught his first readers napping. One of the publishers to whom he submitted the first volume of his seven-volume masterpiece Remembrance of Things Past rejected it, explaining: "I cannot understand why a gentleman should employ 30 pages to describe how he turns and returns on his bed before going to sleep." When that first volume, Swann's Way, finally appeared in print in 1913-at Proust's expense-an influential critic dismissed the author as the "crudest of improvisers...
...conduct of war." On that basis he was subject to the death penalty. In his Reminiscences MacArthur confessed that he was "moved to the very marrow of my bones." Wrote the general: "He was an Emperor by inherent birth, but in that instant I knew I faced the First Gentleman of Japan in his own right...
Pierre Vallieres: The future of Quebec depends on the manner in which independence is won. If independence is won through a civil war, this is obviously very much different from a "gentleman's agreement" between some political parties and the English and American bosses. It is impossible to have true independence as long as the present economic and other social institutions remain intact. It is clear then that a confrontation with the Americans is unavoidable. Therefore, it is all the more imperative to engage in negotiations with anti-imperialist governments throughout the world and indeed all the world's liberation...