Word: loutishly
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Mention the notion of a play about newspapering, and audiences tend to think of characters like those so affectionately evoked in The Front Page: raffish, even loutish, prone to sensationalism and cheap sentiment, but also truthful, keenly professional and dedicated to exposing wrongdoing in high places. Reporters have delighted in seeing themselves depicted as figures of quixotic integrity in plays ranging from the Broadway musical Woman of the Year to Tom Stoppard's rueful tragicomedy Night and Day. But the current wave of antipress feeling in the U.S. may have spread to Britain as well. Audiences at London's National...
...Baseball Commissioner Peter Ueberroth, who has been searching for a way to crack down on drug use by players, has talked of refurbishing baseball's "family image," a polite way of saying that something must be done about a new type of fan turning up at ball parks: the loutish young male who sloshes beer on other fans, starts fistfights at random and hurls objects from the stands. The Pittsburgh Pirates have set aside "family sections," where no beer is allowed. The Seattle Mariners have 3,500 family seats at the Kingdome...
...fact, Amis is quite the scold. His Rabelaisian comic gift cuts savagely at the patchwork of relativism and materialism that passes for modern social fabric. The novel's loutish hero, John Self, is a grotesque victim of life in the fast lane: "I hate people with degrees, O-levels, eleven-pluses, Iowa Tests, shorthand diplomas," says Self. "And you hate me, don't you. Yes you do. Because I'm the new kind, the kind who has money but can never use it for anything but ugliness...
...summertime, on mountaintops and mesas, down in valleys, out on beaches, back up in hollows, there is staged in America what goes by the name of outdoor drama. Historical works for the most part, family entertainment (young people playing good and brave and true Indians, loutish colonists, supercilious monarchs), they exist, in the hope of snagging tourists, in spots that afford a vista. The oldest of these productions is The Lost Colony, which was commenced in the summer of 1937 on Roanoke Island, a sandspit between Nags Head and the mainland of North Carolina. The director for the past...
This glimpse is what Singer's stories constantly offer. To catch it, his readers are not required to believe in demonology but merely to agree that much of life is otherwise inexplicable. Why would a devout Jewish husband tempt his beautiful new bride into adultery with a loutish footman? What could prompt a spirited girl to masquerade as a yeshiva boy and then marry a village's most eligible heiress? In The Cabalist of East Broadway, a morose old Hebrew scholar suddenly abandons New York City for a young wife and fame in Israel. Just as suddenly...