Word: gentlemen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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After explaining the methods scientists used to determine the masses of the Earth, sun, Milky Way Galaxy and galactic clusters, Field summed his speech up by saying, "to put it very simply, ladies and gentlemen, I don't know what the mass of the universe...
...vast majority of those who get to college not only have all their tuition fees paid by the government, but a considerable proportion of their living expenses as well? The introduction of government aid since 1945 has grafted a meritocracy onto a system of tradition designed to make "gentlemen." The student lounging in the Junior Common Room of one of the Oxford colleges (often medieval in origin), taking afternoon tea (provided by the college butler) and resplendent in T-shirt and jeans, may be the son of a lord, a nouveau riche city businessman or a coal miner...
...what, you may well ask, has the death of these 94 elderly gentlemen to do with this most dubious of achievements? Well, the 94 are, unwittingly, the adoptive fathers of 94 perfect little replicas of der Führer, and now it is necessary, if you are to give the final nasty twist to their personalities, to replicate the great shaping experience of Hitler's adolescence-the death of the domineering father at age 65. A fairish number of "parents" are disposed of before Lieberman finally catches up with and confronts the wicked Mengele in a Pennsylvania farmhouse...
...Greyhound bus. Although there were men on the bus, there were only three besides myself. One had been dragged along by his wife--he hunched his shoulders as though he were trying to make himself inobtrusive, and he didn't talk much. The other two were elderly gentlemen who had somehow gotten the impression that the tour was stopping for a show at the Grand Ole Opry. It wasn...
...Catechism in Crumbs, offering advice to religious educators, Luciani wrote: "Michelangelo was asked, How do you produce statues that are so full of life? He responded: The marble already contains the statues; it is just a matter of extracting them. Like marble, children are rough material: you can extract gentlemen, heroes, even saints." Last year Luciani publicly opposed the proposed new concordat between the Vatican and Italy because it would remove compulsory religion classes from public schools: "By decapitating religious culture, will we not decapitate culture as well...