Word: jealously
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...JEALOUS EAR by ROBERT EARLY 207 pages. Houghton Mifflin...
...feel masterful; she does her best to feed it. Nor does she mind being categorized by him as flighty and irresponsible, deficient in the basic equipment of level-headed logic with which men run her world. Her entire existence is cramped in a closet to which Torvald holds a jealous key. But Nora considers herself lucky to be so taken care...
This attitude was directly reflected in the new sexual comedy of manners, which flourished for nearly a half century. The marriage bond was not taken very seriously, and we got a steady parade of adulterers, cuckolds, jealous husbands, fops, hypocritical ladies, and all manner of intrigue. A contributing factor was the emergence for the first time of professional actresses--to replace the young boys who had traditionally played female roles. Thus these comedies are filled with colorful and clever scheming women, originally portrayed by players whose morals were often as loose in real life as on the stage...
...play's major interest attaches to Pinchwife and his young bride Margery. Wycherley, who was educated in France, modeled the pair on characters in Moliere's School for Husbands and School for Wives; the jealous and overprotective Pinchwife corresponds to Sganarelle and Arnolphe, the outwitting Margery to Isabella and Agnes. Jack Gwillim's gray-bearded Pinchwife is all gruff and grum, but the part is a stock two-dimensional character that admits of little variety...
...honor of escorting Hirohito and the Empress Nagako to the U.S. Although Sato denied it, Japanese press reports maintained that, when he was turned down, the former Premier began stirring up doubts about the trip within the Imperial Household Agency, which manages Hirohito's official life with jealous zeal. In the end, the agency doomed the visit by ruling that it was miring the Emperor in unseemly controversy. There were also fears that Hirohito, who suffered a dizzy spell on a recent trip to Kyushu, would not be up to the rigors of a tour through...