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...hard to retell this story without commonplaces about the sporting British and their plucky amateurism. In her new novel The Birthday Boys (Carroll & Graf; 189 pages; $18.95), Beryl Bainbridge imagines the icebound band as the last gentlemen of the Edwardian Age. After them the deluge: two world wars, a lost generation and a crumbling empire...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BOOKS: Fatal Fiasco | 5/16/1994 | See Source »

...balled myself up in the fetal 'civil rights position'--protect your head and genital area," he says, "and then I spoke somewhat forcefully and said 'gentlemen, please don't hit me. If you will allow me to get to my feet, I will leave the premises,' and miracle of miracles, they ceased and desisted...

Author: By Robin J. Stamm, | Title: Brush With Racism Turns Student Into Activist | 4/22/1994 | See Source »

DIED. ALBERT GOLDMAN, 66, author; of a heart attack; en route from Miami to London. After stints as an English professor at Columbia and a critic for Life magazine, Goldman found his calling as a merciless demythologizer of such pop icons as Lenny Bruce (in 1974's Ladies and Gentlemen -- Lenny Bruce!!), Elvis Presley (Elvis, 1981) and John Lennon (The Lives of John Lennon, 1988). No one would call these biographies "appreciations": the sordid side of his subjects -- from Presley's addictions and gluttony to Lennon's appetite for violence and sex -- fascinated Goldman. All of it was served...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones Apr. 11, 1994 | 4/11/1994 | See Source »

Recalls Peck, "People who did [work hard] were called grinds, or 'greasy grinds." But gentlemen didn't have to work at all. They got C's and "those who were well-born went on to do well in life and have distinguished careers...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: #6: The Law of The Slacker: Show Them You're Not a Tiger | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

...athlete and a gentlemen. And can we say that about Magic...

Author: By Mayer Bick, | Title: Another Step Up | 3/3/1994 | See Source »

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