Word: fops
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Valentino's two friends, Scandal the misanthrope and Tattle the fop, are presented by Messrs. Rawson and Schmidt. Mr. Rawson has been dressed up to look like the Merry Monarch, but he sounds like Chris Rawson, which is somehow wrong. Mr. Schmidt postures very fastidiously...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. The first complete edition of one of England's greatest wits reveals depths of wisdom in a man so often caricatured as a fop...
...Letters of Oscar Wilde, edited by Rupert Hart-Davis. This first complete, un-bowdlerized collection of letters reveals Wilde as someone far more profound than the talented fop of his own caricature...
...bins of the Midwest. So do debutantes, university students, even a refugee from an Eastern girl's-school choir. Everywhere, there are bearded fop singers and clean-cut dilettantes. There are gifted amateurs and serious musicians New York, Boston, Chicago, Minneapolis Denver and San Francisco all have shoals of tiny coffee shops, all loud with basic sound-a pinched and studied wail that is intended to suggest flinty hills or clumpy prairies...
...long dalliance with the fretful young fop Douglas begins with besotted love notes ("My Own Boy, it is a marvel that those red rose-leaf lips of yours should have been made no less for music of song than for madness of kisses") and reaches its most wretched state in the 87-page De Profundis letter. Here Wilde, having come to terms with remorse, attempted to scourge the consistently childish Douglas into an adult assessment of his own character. The passages of confession are moving and wise; for perhaps the only time in his life, Wilde looked at himself clearly...