Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Without a doubt the least excited readers of the goings-on in the "Harvard Sex Scandal" [Nov. 8] that the various tabloids have been immortalizing lately are to be found at Harvard itself. We could have put the gentlemen of the press well at ease and saved them their vain searches these last few weekends through the cellars of Cambridge for further evidence of the promiscuity that they hoped was to be found. To those of us who do not always have the time or inclination to go elsewhere for our bacchanalian weekends, the only alternative might be thought...
...Gentlemen's Disagreement. In Paris, Ball also got a sympathetic reception, a pleasant change for a U.S. envoy these days. France last year exported to the Soviet bloc goods worth only about $266 million; Russian barter proposals, involving a swap of Soviet coal and oil for heavy industrial goods, are highly unattractive since France can sell its own coal and oil inside the Common Market. Besides, Charles de Gaulle believes that trading with the Soviets is a dirty business (although he seems willing to trade with Red China) and recently denied an export license to a leading French steel...
...called them "gentlemen capital ists," and only occasionally suggested that all capitalists are really robbers and cheats. Communist delegations from all over the world crowded into Moscow for the 46th anniversary celebrations of the Bolshevik Revolution. But Nikita Khrushchev devoted a total of seven hours to a traveling group of 20 top American executives (plus one educator) as if he found more challenge in their company...
Hawes says that the Big Three schools were the "gentlemen's quarters" from the end of the Civil War until the end of World War II. After that, a sudden influx of applications caused the three most prestigious colleges to make a choice between "professed commitment to develop intellect and a long rich association with the upper class." The three, "especially Harvard," decided to replace aristocracy with "meritocracy," writes Hawes...
Besides splitting the party, the process of selection seemed to verify the Laborite charge that Conservatives really are anachronistic Tory gentlemen. Unlike their Labor opponents, who elect their leaders, the Tories have no formal method of selection: Instead, senior ministers take delicate soundings within the party to arrive at the "proper consensus." It must have rankled Rab Butler that the "consensus" decided on the aristocratic Home while a nation-wide Gallup poll found Butler to be as strong a Prime Ministerial candidate as Labor's Harold Wilson...