Word: genteelism
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...Rene's escapades form the main plot. They take her on a quick whirl through reform school, a marathon party with some furloughing G.I.s, a brush with genteel do-gooders, and a near marriage with a U.S. soldier named Hotspot (Hotty for short), which is interrupted by the rude appearance of the cops. But The Joyful Condemned is the sort of novel that lavishly scatters half a dozen subplots and a small army of minor characters. Novelist Tennant tosses in a raucous riot scene in the girls' reformatory, a wild chapter in which two young racketeers...
This Porgy and Bess is musically full-bodied; dramatically, it stresses something primitive and makes earlier productions seem in retrospect a little genteel. Its chief shortcoming: without quite achieving the musical statue of opera-the music sometimes pants and strains-it becomes a bit too sprawling and noisy for musi-comedy. But such excesses are a kind of tribute to its exuberance...
...Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The career of a genteel rotter not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a reissue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME...
...behalf of realism, by which he meant his idea that the American village could be "as inquisitorial as an army barracks'' and the American businessman "the most grievous victim of his own militant dullness." At the same time, Lewis kept firing away at his literary enemies: the "genteel philosophy" personified in William Dean Howells, a writer with "the code of a pious old maid whose greatest delight was to have tea at the vicarage"; literary commercialism, which bent the imagination to a soapsuds formula, and highbrow professors who "like their literature clear and cold and pure and very...
...Shipwrecked, by Graham Greene. The decline & fall of a genteel rotter who finds he is not unscrupulous enough to be successful; a re-issue of Greene's little-noted novel of 1935, England Made Me (TIME...