Word: gentlemanly
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Prettying Up Life. The sensitive Jamesian gentleman who views life as if it should be a pretty picture makes his first appearance. By ignoring evil, he usually ends up disillusioned and despairing...
...indulgences is a sizable stereophonic record collection; though he is fond of art ("I'm afraid the abstracts don't appeal to me"), his most valuable pictures are a pair of landscapes in oil, signed W.S.C., that were a gift from the Old Gentleman who painted them. He occasionally takes a girl out to dinner, but even the inventive British press has hardly ever hinted that Heath has time for romance...
...days, Timothy Wentworth Beaumont is the very model of a modern Mayfair gentleman. He gathers writers and politicians the way other men collect stamps, entertaining 30 or 40 at dinner each week in his opulent London town house. He has used his fortune lavishly to bankroll England's recent Liberal revival, and is chairman of the Cities of London and Westminster Liberal Association. He owns a small but influential string of magazines. He is an avid follower of the track, and his wife races a filly named High...
...form his own independent company, but has kept a Fox vice-presidency all the while, still owns 110,000 shares of Fox stock, more than the combined personal holdings of all the present board members, A creative man who knows how to make movies (The Grapes of Wrath, Gentleman's Agreement), he says: "I don't mind being second-guessed by pros, but I don't want to be second-guessed by amateurs...
When the bidding reached ?100,000 ($280,000), the bulky old gentleman in the puce-and-green-striped tie emitted a genteel "whew," and he blinked his eyes incredulously at every ?10,000 jump thereafter. The work on sale last week at Sotheby's in London was his: Rembrandt's brooding St. Bartholomew, one of the most important Rembrandts still left in private hands. The final price of $532,000 fell well short of the $2,300,000 paid last fall by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art for Aristotle Contemplating the Bust of Homer; but still...