Word: decorum
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Look Back in Anger will go down in history for leading British drama out of the drawing room and into the rooming house, for giving it a good shot of O'Neill-Miller-Williams influence, and for varying its genteel decorum with a rude, poignant intensity and a new relevance to both current and recurrent human concerns. But the analogous revolution for British movies has already been accomplished by Room at the Top, and the film version of John Osborne's play appears as a good piece of work in an established genre of sex-and-the-class-struggle movies...
...seduced from their parents"), and almost coming to arms with Henry Clay over a speech against the invasion of Canada. ("As it respects the Southern and Western men, they shall learn from me, if from no one else, that they are not to set up standards of duty and decorum for my part of the country. While I have tongue or pen, the ignorant part of the nation shall not assume to itself with impunity to lord over the intelligent, nor the vicious over the virtuous...
...trivial" by management at the time, thus could not be the reason for the firings. "Credulity," said Funke, "is a girdle that can be stretched only so far." Funke agreed that some employers would "sacrifice the immediate interest of their business to maintain a standard of propriety and decorum at which Victoria herself would not cavil," but, he said, Santangelo "could not be described as Victorian." Added Examiner Funke: "The contiguous employment of male and female in offices and plants has inevitably led to a relaxing of formal barriers and to a tolerance of casual badinage and conduct not free...
This is not a counsel of perfection or a bit of neo-Renaissance decorum-mongering. Style is attainable (though God knows how), and its absence arouses a dissatisfaction that, in this production, frequently counterbalances and sometimes overbalances the lacquered perfection of the script...
...solution to the problem would be to include more courses organized on a non-historical basis. Consideration of genres, of traditions, of critical theories, of myths, or of moral ideas are possible approaches which transgress historical decorum and are presently ignored...