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...long, gentlemen. It's been good to know you. Grownups to a man, you gave the campaign a depth of field, a seriousness and a connection to history it would never have had without your lovesick perseverance. You also made it fun. And by the way, you were wrong about the country not loving you back, in its fashion. Didn't you catch the look in the lady's eyes when she threw her arms around you, knowing all the while that she was going to marry someone else? If only she hadn't said that...
...fact, public opinion polls taken before the vote showed that 64% of citizens thought it was time to have a woman at the highest level of government. Said the Zurich tabloid Blick: "The people wanted Lilian, but the gentlemen in Bern elected a man." Swiss women refer to the day of the vote, Dec. 7, as Black Wednesday...
...fellow inmates were chiefly peasants, the very people he had hoped to emancipate from the crushing system that enslaved them, but they turned out to be murderous, thieving, brawling brutes who detested him. Dostoevsky notes: "Their hatred for the gentry knew no bounds, and therefore they received us, the gentlemen, with hostility and malicious joy in our troubles. They would have eaten us alive, given the chance...
American servicemen do not expect to make the cover of Gentlemen's Quarterly, but they do want their combat wear to be both practical and neat. The latest Army fatigues appear to be neither. The half-nylon, half-cotton outfit, with its amoebic pattern of green, brown, tan and black, is unacceptably hot, even in temperate climates. It was designed to be an "all-service, all-purpose" uniform, but clerks, mechanics and drill sergeants alike bemoan its uncomfortable cut and slovenly look. It was supposed to be the pride of the Pentagon, but the battle dress uniform (B.D.U...
...clear even to an observer new to these rites that other matters were more important. Take the matter of the handkerchiefs. A society of pragmatists has decided that Kleenex is handier and more sanitary. The day when every gentleman carried two handkerchiefs is gone, as are most of the gentlemen. That seems to be the point. The old boys of the Eastern Establishment, waving in languid mockery at the foe, are also wigwagging a message to those of us plebes who are watching: "We still have our handkerchiefs and our standards, and don't doubt for a minute that...