Word: gentlemanly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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These attitudes can be disconcerting. For example, he sees the success of the Western parliamentary system as dependent upon the existence of a responsible elite rather like a composite English gentleman-to whom he addresses a prose poem of admiration. He deplores oral contraceptives as "stealthy pills which encroach on human dignity and destroy the few good and beautiful things that have not yet vanished in the rummage sale of ancient cultures." He classifies the "passion for ugliness and disfigurement" in modern art as a "danger far greater than depopulation by war." Liberals would call him a reactionary...
...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. Another report from the O'Hara country, this one the story of George Lockwood, whose "concern" is to become a gentleman-a concern which has turned into an O'Hara obsession and, consequently, is a bit boring...
...LOCKWOOD CONCERN, by John O'Hara. Another report from the O'Hara country of eastern Pennsylvania, this one the story of George Lockwood, whose "concern" is to become a gentleman-a concern which has turned into an O'Hara obsession and, consequently, is a bit boring...
...play about people who inhabit the past and the present, and those who inhabit no time at all. There is Amanda Wingfield, a faded Mississippi belle stranded in the slums of St. Louis who is trying desperately to recapture the dead world of the Delta; Jim O'Connor, the gentleman caller, an engaging boor who represents the present Amanda is avoiding; Tom, Amanda's son, torn between love for his mother and sister and the desire to escape into the living world around him; and Laura, Amanda's daughter, a shy and delicately beautiful cripple who can cope with...
Percival H. Granger III, as Jim, might have rescued the production. He is the gentleman caller that Amanda tries to ensnare for Laura, and who turns out to be no gentleman at all. But Granger, instead of being the supremely confident and supremely ignorant shipping clerk, comes out as a well-modulated and understanding young man, inconsistent with his coarse treatment for Laura. His enthusiastic banalities should bring Laura temporarily out of her dream world; but he is often as withdrawn...