Glazer: Yeah, that was the most gently written thing to us, that moment between the girls.
"Sitting with a friend in the restaurant of a Benghazi hotel, the 41-year-old, sporting a red felt hat and a full salt-and-pepper beard, laughed gently," wrote Hadeel Al Shalchi and Ghaith Shennib.
Beyond that, it transformed "information" from a term associated with requests to telephone operators to an intellectual buzzword, bandied about so loosely that Shannon was moved to write a gently cautionary note called "The Bandwagon".
And while I don't "go gently," and continue to write and speak against age discrimination, I am more and more discouraged by the growing acceptance of this societal injustice (even by older people's advocates and organizations), to which no one in the "no longer young" group is immune.
STARS -- A Canadian band with a knack for writing gently devastating pop songs.
MacGregor said that what singled out Bel Canto was its being "so gently and tenderly written.
But there are new touches too: among them, varied percussion effects (from military snare drums to castanets) and long-lined, gently chromatic string writing.
"Schickler is a writer of brisk and quirky sentences" and his "voice is witty and gently spiky," Jennifer Schuessler wrote in these pages in 2001.
She was writing gently satiric novels; he had made a name for himself as an "information architect," a phrase he coined to describe what he and others were increasingly doing, which was organizing data -- information -- into clear patterns.
Joan Bakewell, who was herself gently nudged into writing after a lifetime in broadcasting, and who has often written of older women becoming invisible in society, said yesterday: "I believe Moira to be one of the best newsreaders the BBC has.
