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...narrow line between deterioration and danger and the tenuous link connecting history and simply old age are best seen as the House system celebrates its golden anniversary. "We're beyond the era of gentlemen needing suites and stables for their horses," Davis says. "There's no need to return to that era of housing. But at some point the run-down quality becomes a real problem...
This affluent society has two celebrity economists. Milton Friedman is the short conservative one. The other, of course, is the 6-ft. 8-in. liberal John Kenneth Galbraith. The styles of these distinguished gentlemen also differ greatly. Wreathed in affability, Friedman delivers the chilly news that life is not fair. In contrast, Galbraith assumes the demeanor of a hanging judge and drolly intimates that life does not have to be as unfair as Professor Friedman says...
...wish to add a note to your article on Omar Bradley, the five-star G.I.'s general [April 20]. You stated that since the Civil War the title General of the Army, which has the insignia of five stars, has been held by only five gentlemen: Omar Bradley, George Marshall, Douglas MacArthur, Henry H. ("Hap") Arnold and Dwight Eisenhower. You should also have mentioned John J. Pershing, who held the slightly different but even more impressive rank General of the Armies...
...patrons would tear the designer label off an urban cowboy's jeans, and songs like / Keep Gettin' Paid the Same and Dam of My Heart (both on the new album) sound gritty and firsthand, not arm's length, the preferred performing distance of contemporary country gentlemen...
...quarter-century has brought changes in the rituals of courtship. "Our typical affectionate consumer," he writes, "may now only whisper 'Your place or mine?' at a neighborhood dating bar." On the other hand, to perpetuate old-fashioned nights out, many damsels have come to the aid of gentlemen in financial distress. With women earning better salaries-sometimes more than their beaux-affirmative action demands Dutch treats at the very least, or even that the lady pull out her own American Express card ($6 in the late 1950s, now $35 annually...