Word: gentlemen
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...Wise Men, a history of American cold war diplomacy, Bundy told us that there was no such thing as the Establishment. If so, it was Bundy as much as anyone who brought about the end of an era in which foreign policy was entrusted to a noble club of gentlemen secure in their common outlook and bonds of trust. As his successor Walt Rostow recalled thinking at the end of the 1968 meeting of elders that Bundy helped convene, "The American establishment is dead...
...plausibly live" broadcasts and virtual-reality competitions and an Olympic Experience store, the highlights of the first interactive Games were plain, old-fashioned human interactions. Bagpipes played on Peachtree Street, and fans learned a new lexicon in which misters are not just gentlemen in Georgia and ticket-holders are made of plastic. The effortlessly graceful Marie-Jose Perec showed that she was a true champion when her bronzed rival in the 400 m, Falilat Ogunkoya, teared up as she thought of the mother she had just lost and Perec warmly hugged her (while a volunteer fetched a Kleenex). Japanese said...
...marriage of the Mafia and movies provides Puzo with his longest-running gag. In scene after scene the gentlemen from New York and Las Vegas have more ethics and common courtesy than most Hollywood bosses. Puzo, of course, has a few scores to settle. In 1974 he went to the mattresses with Universal Studios over his share of profits for writing Earthquake. The experience probably explains why Bobby Bantz, LoddStone's second in command, is a fulsome repository of foul behavior and slippery business practices. Among them is the willfully complicated gross-and-net game that fattens those...
...recall is that he really wasn't very tough; he was [sympathetic]," says Glashow, who would go on to claim the Nobel Prize in physics. "He was a perfectly lovable gentlemen...
...overlooks the fact that The Crimson loyally reported the facts (surrounding my impending trial and the subsequent exoneration), including my charges of conspiracy and character defamation laid at the door of the Center for Middle East Studies. Perhaps The Crimson should have compromised its principles and sheepishly appeased these gentlemen--at that center of deceit and falsification--by censoring my point of view...