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And now a Mediterranean villa on a hillside in genteel Bel-Air has become the latest target of mysterious graffiti vandals.

This has been played down by his admirers as a kind of genteel, country-club antisemitism somehow distinguishable from the bad kind.

Well, the amazing thing about Lewis Powell on the Supreme Court is that Powell is sort of a classic Southern lawyer, a genteel racist.

Derailing the training center is a longshot, but Chambers is committed to last-ditch efforts — and, in turn, to thumbing his nose at the genteel relatives from whom he is estranged.

Yet despite its genteel reputation and simple objective — touch an opponent with your blade before being touched — the sport has long been rife with drama and suspicion.