Word: discreet
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...disagreement was largely a matter of style. Discreet and conservative in its ways, the Rothschild bank is the epitome of bowler hat British banking. The Rothschild trust, known as RIT for short, is something of a swinger in world financial circles. Under Jacob's management, its assets have increased astronomically, from $14.3 million to $239 million since 1970, through investments in art galleries and auction houses, among others...
...Expos have always had a character, a kind of discreet continental charm mixed with grittiness. For years, sportswriters took more notice of Montreal's fine cuisine and sidewalk cafes than the team itself. Before the Olympic Stadium was built, Jarry Park was a favorite target for written abuse...
...Stalin, it has little to do with workers' wishes either. Although members of the ruling elite may have come originally from proletarian families, that connection becomes more remote as the entrenchment proceeds. Amid scarcities of everything (meat, soap, housing, humor, intelligence), the new class buys its provisions with discreet complacency at its own quietly exclusive stores. The mass of work ers stand in their interminable lines or else buy on the flourishing black market. Liberties and other items of bourgeois individualism get crushed under the great rattling treads of His tory, clanking ineluctably toward the Red dawn; on closer...
...raids all their bank accounts before informing her of his desertion-by leaving a message on her answering machine. Then there is Susan Saint James, trying to raise the children on a too-small alimony check. She wants to marry an agreeable fellow who is also broke. Too discreet to sleep together in her bedroom, where the children might discover them, and too poor to hire a motel room, they must cohabit in her station wagon, parked in the garage...
Such are the personal touches and discreet comforts of a well-managed small hotel. Establishments like these have flourished for years in Europe, while in the U.S., land of computer-run colossi built for a badge-and-bottle clientele and crammed with more than 2,000 rooms, the list of truly first-class, intimate hotels has long been woefully short...