Word: gentlemanly
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...Enosis. In Athens, the English-language Athens News refused a classified ad stating "Greek lady desires to hold conversations with English gentleman on the Cyprus issue in exchange for lessons in Greek, German or piano" on the ground that "the lessons would be doomed to failure...
...Irish officer of peasant birth who served under Wellington in the Peninsular War and is now an impoverished innkeeper and his own taproom's steadiest customer. Under the influence of booze and Byronism, he lives inside a gilded dream, that fools no one, of being a fine-born gentleman. He rides a thoroughbred mare while making his daughter a slavey; he sneers at the Yankees as vulgar traders while owing them money and enjoying none of their trade. His fiery daughter Sara, has a wellborn young American in tow, and when it comes out that...
...That suave, ivy league fraternity gentleman who pounds on your door Monday night may be pounding on your posterior before long.... Ask him if his is one of the large number of houses that are transformed into a prehistoric cave during that week. Let him tell you about the activities "which develop brotherhood." Let him tell you about the raw eggs that will be dropped into your mouth, about the pigly, nude races you will have, about the days you will be forced to remain awake...
...fantasy concerns release from stentorian academics and their positive ways. His fantasy is the satisfaction of an appetite, and everyone knows that a gentleman never over-eats. If Harold Brodky's piece in the New Yorker a while ago (I think it was called "Adams House Confidential") hurt the feelings of the boys in the tweed vests at University Hall, Kozol's excess may make them faint of heart...
...Fifty-Seventh Street and not one easily forgotten. The comment is indicative despite its derogatory aspect. A painter can usually, or should ideally, be able to project his knowledge and instinct beyond his taste, the last mentioned being surface matter in the business of criticism. It was this gentleman's taste which created the paradox. What the incident evokes is the fact that Lyonel Feininger's work is that of a painter's painter. He always commanded the respect of his fellow artists. That is no easy thing to achieve and there are few accolades better worth having...