The American Spectator

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Right or Wrong, Our Country : p>Many current Americans despise American men whom they think of as "gentlemen." Perhaps Hollywood or television has made the word "gentleman" mean something vile. My father taught me that a gentlemen was a tired tenant farmer walking down a country road to his house at the end of a hard day knowing he had done a good job and being quietly proud of it. In this day people look up to loud-mouthed trash who appeal to television and Hollywood because they are cheaper than actors; perhaps the television and Hollywood people think of themselves as products of loud-mouthed, low down, no good, no account trash and wish to give that genre some "class." BR>-- Nathan S. Lord p> LEFT AND BEHIND BR>Re: Herbert I. London's The Threat We Face...and the Path Ahead : p>Herb London. The only reason I'll confess to having taken a degree from New York University. Now that the Professor's gone Emeritus, what shall I say of my alma mater? p>The University's young fund-raisers who phone me relentlessly, whining for money, sound like they're lying in vessels of warm saline solution, wired into a monstrous electronic virtual unreality device. I'll never give the school another penny. p>The University has what must be the most fabulous gym in Manhattan. Tax-exempt facilities needn't scrimp on the square feet, you see. p>And that's what's left to say about the New York University Professor London's left behind. BR>--

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