Word: gentleman
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...compromised." On the other hand, the Harvard-educated Fullerton, some three years her junior, had drifted into his 40s without accomplishing much of anything except a string of ex- lovers, male and female. Yet she listened with a lover's ears to the grand plans of her perpetually promising gentleman: "And when you spoke of your uncertain future, your longing to break away & do the work you really like, didn't you see how my heart broke with the thought that, if I had been younger & prettier, everything might have been different...
...trainer, D'Amato tried to instill a courtliness at the same time as he was installing the heavy machinery. "My opponent was game and gutsy," the 17-year-old Tyson remarked after dusting a Princeton man during the Olympic trials of 1984. "What round did I stop the gentleman in, anyway...
...Northeast cynicism and satire--leading Harvard's Leland to compare Wolfe to an H.L. Mencken of the 1980s--in person, he has a luxurious style unique to South and to Southerners. "He is a wonderful companion and is a kind of a modern-day embodiment of a Virginia gentleman," Felker says. "He has very courtly manners combined with modern-day sensitivities...
...token white suit--according to New York magazine, he has seven of them--embodies the Southern gentleman in Wolfe, as well as his inherent contradictions. While many point to his representative outfit as indicative of his elitist attitudes, he says he wears the white suit as a mockery of the life he leads...
...very cold and hostile place to the newcomer, and superficially it is. The Administration cares little whether an individual student sinks or swims...One can easily spend four years in Cambridge without meeting a Faculty member of higher rank than teaching fellow, and it is possible to receive a gentleman's C with little or no work and have the only permanent trace of one's presence here a series of impressions on an IBM card." Pre-Registration Issue, September...