Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Amanda is one of the best of William's characters, but also one of the most difficult to play. She must reminisce dreamily about the easy gentility of her youthful days in the South, where she once entertained seventeen "gentlemen callers" with kitty talk, and at the same time must show through as an insipid and very ungenteel middle-class mother, the kind of woman who would fall for an alcoholic telephone man despite her "fastidious" tastes. This is a hard contrast to handle without making Amanda merely laughable. Another contrast is even more difficult. Amanda must be a nagging...
...twin 315-h.p. G.M. diesels. From Louisiana's Gulf Coast came Ragin' Cajun, a 32-ft. diesel whose skipper announced: "This is a work boat, the kind we use to take workers out to the offshore oil rigs. We aim to beat the pants off them gentlemen drivers." But the Bertrams' most dangerous challengers were nine Formula 233s, fiber-glass boats whose own deep-V lines were almost dead ringers for the Bertrams...
...compensate for economic and social defeat or deprivation of status. He has surmounted the limitation which renders jejune the social chronicles of John Marquand; Cheever can place his people as unerringly as Marquand in the social pecking order, but they are seen finally as naked spirits, not ladies and gentlemen...
...even tries to match her hosts insult for insult. Hostess: "We thought all Americans were gangsters." Honey: "And we thought all Englishmen were gentlemen." She usually loses anyway because they merely enjoy...
...America. But other than the standard Pravda denunciations of "Yankee imperialism," there was little indication that Moscow was anxious to risk the fragile detente abuilding with the U.S. Khrushchev himself waited a full week before publicly mentioning Panama, then limited himself to a relatively mild attack: "Display some reason, gentlemen. Get out before it is too late, before you are chucked out." What seemed to aggravate Khrushchev far more was the recent CIA report that Russia itself was in the throes of a grave economic crisis. In reply to that, he angrily shouted a new version of his famed...