Word: edwardianism
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...Thersites, who, more than anyone else, probably represents Shakespeare's point of view, the play is difficult to stage in any context. But Shakespearean directors have long tried to meet the challenge anyway, notably Tyrone Guthrie, who, with the Old Vic, once did Troilus and Cressida as an Edwardian period piece, the Greeks as Prussians and the Trojans as British guards...
...heterogeneity. They gave up one of the best possibilities of the play, that of delighting the eye with a great Roman spectacle, by giving it in modern dress. Weli, not quite modern dress. Men wore tuxedoes and lit their cigarettes with Zippo lighters, careful not to burn their Edwardian sideburns. Caesonia (Caligula's mistress) appeared in several very Roman costumes, one modern evening gown, and one outfit that would not have been out of place in the chorus line of the Copacabana. Asa Gates designed those costumes which were not rented from a tuxedo agency. There is no set designer...
...always "bobbitting about." In 1917 he was thrown out of Rugby on circumstantial evidence of thievery. Though innocent, Ionides was scarcely helped by the fact that he was a known poacher of pheasants and that his desk drawer contained two loaded revolvers. Though his family was proper Edwardian and had been in England for generations, he was also tagged as "the Greek" and as "Ironhides" for his stoic composure under the most severe canings...
Britain's most aristocratic kingmaker is Robert Arthur James Gascoyne-Cecil, 67, fifth Marquess of Salisbury. Lean, bony-faced, speaking with a slight Edwardian lisp, Salisbury has roamed the inner chambers of power for three decades. At his urging, Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden resigned in protest against Chamberlain's appeasement of Mussolini and Hitler. Salisbury was a strong proponent of Eden's ill-fated intervention in Suez. In 1957 Salisbury resigned from Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's government because he thought that Britain had gotten "too soft" in dealing with the rebellion in Cyprus...
...smiled Macmillan in his best Edwardian manner. "As the House observed yesterday, the Honorable Member for Halifax has both intelligence and independence. How he got them...