Word: manneredness
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Brecht drew his Galileo as a big belching proletarian who would belch even in the Pope's presence. Tony van Bridge seems far too well-mannered with the Establishment, but among his scientist friends he back-slaps sufficiently. He brings extreme power to the role, perhaps too much. The rest...
Shattered Mood. Lumped together, they are the Intruders, the most ill-mannered group ever to plague U.S. concert halls and opera houses-and they seem to be more prevalent today than ever before. One theory is that they are the illegitimate offspring of the cultural explosion. Another is that audiences...
The guest of honor at last week's luncheon meeting of the Cleveland Touchdown Club seemed the soul of mild-mannered urbanity. He broke his rolls before he buttered them. He politely said nothing about the veal cutlet. He refolded his napkin neatly when he was through. He wore...
William Alfred, mild-mannered English professor at a great eastern university, slipped into the off-Broadway American Place Theater last Thursday evening. Three hours later, out strode a hit playwright with the best notices of the season for Hogan's Goat.
World War II. The officers are overage, the women bed-prone, but with part of their time and part of their minds, they feel themselves part of the war effort. Although they never hear a shot fired in anger, Waugh shows how war changes or destroys them all. In the...