Word: manneredness
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Still, Rosen also knows that even the most skillful poseur benefits from moments of self-revelation. His book does aspire, successfully too, towards a correspondingly mannered honesty. And so Harvard tortures him with its promises of success and its undercurrent of failure. "We would have liked, some of us, to...
It is tempting to confuse this gentle, mild-mannered man with his heroes. Like The Last Gentleman, he tends to become addled in New York, a city that he generally tries to avoid. He is no longer a compulsive moviegoer, but he leaves the television on-without sound-all evening...
After graduation, he married an art teacher who was the heiress to the fortune of the inventor of the little red wagon. He tried some courses at the Business School, some accounting jobs, and a stint at housewifery before becoming a teacher in a suburban high school. "A Harvard degree...
Instead of enjoying the freely offered sexual services of borrowed wives-as Eskimos do-they sleep with unmarried daughters, something that Eskimos regard as ill-mannered. They teach the Eskimos to play soccer with curious results. "When my people understood this new game, they were shocked," Avinga thinks, "for it...
The show at the Winter Garden Theater* is called Follies, a title self-consciously suggesting irony and double meanings. At its worst moments, Follies is mannered and pretentious, overreaching for Significance. At its best moments?and there are many?it is the most imaginative and original new musical that Broadway...