Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rusk, in short, displays this kind of one-track thought which we have come to associate with Southern Senators. Compromise does not exist for such high minded gentlemen: honor will not permit it. Furthermore, Rusk tends to identify his personal honor with the national honor. "I am honored to have my name associated with the doctrine that the United States must honor its pledged word," Rusk has said repeatedly. What appears to bother Rusk most of all about the war in Vietnam, one suspects is the lack of chivalry on the other side...
...students used to be subdivided variously into gentlemen who were born to go to college, apprentices who thrived on a land-grant opportunity to struggle upward, Big Men on Campus who scorned study but succeeded by using college to form useful, lifelong friends. What is distinctive about American students today, says Kenistoji, is not the beats and the draft-card burners, whose revolutionism is only beard-deep, but a new breed of "professionalists." They are the "academically committed young men and women, who value technological, intellectual and professional competence above popularity, ambition or grace." The professionalist is not a status...
...other and older countries, tradition is the visible testament to established order; referring to the matches between amateur and professional cricketers, the British still speak of The Gentlemen and The Players. Sometimes tradition is a means of reassurance in an uncertain world; "Do not introduce innovations," warns a Taoist maxim. Tradition ranges from philosophy to fashion, from faith to manners, from the highest regions of polity to the humdrum level of a city sidewalk. (Will the last woman who saw the last man tip the last hat please stand up?) At least on the surface of U.S. life today...
Ford urged legislators to consider carefully "the economic impact upon our industry" of several auto-safety laws that have been proposed. "If they do something that is irrational," he warned, "they can upset the economy of this country very rapidly . . . All I hope is that these gentlemen in Washington will consider the problems that they may force on the automobile industry in depth before they pass a law . . . We are in trouble, but in fighting our way out of it, we are going to do the right thing for the consumer and we are going to make cars safer...
...deepening was steeply apparent in Brideshead Revisited (1945), a lyric celebration of Catholicism that alternates pious puling with the loveliest cadences he ever came upon. He was broadened by the war, and the broadening was vigorously displayed in his masterpiece, a 972-page trilogy (Men at Anns, Officers and Gentlemen, The End of the Battle) which is now widely considered the best British novel of World War II. In the trilogy Waugh creates in Apthorpe his greatest comic character, a Falstaff as funny, as tragic, as human as the huge original; but what matters more is that here...