Word: manneredness
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But then Leavitt tries to make his lovers act like clowns as well, and the method horribly breaks down. The play is carefully and clearly constructed to develop four different sorts of characters (court, fairies, lovers, clowns) who use different language, and this production loses greatly by blurring Shakespeare's...
Royalty is supposed to ignore such outbursts-but standing on dignity has grown increasingly uncomfortable for Prince Philip, who does not like newsmen anyway (he once kicked one), and has become highly sensitive to the Beaverbrook press's constant highlighting of the expenses of his trips. Last week the...
I have suffered too much and too long. I would like not to feel for a while." Fitzgerald died in 1940 of a heart attack, at the age of 44. Of his last years, Turnbull says: "Fitzgerald seemed like some mild-mannered clerk-sweet, gentle, amiable, but devoid of temperament...
∙ Of all the cries of "monopoly" aroused by the attempt of Britain's mighty Imperial Chemical Industries to swallow fibermaking Courtaulds Ltd. (TIME, Jan. 26), the loudest have come from mild-mannered Avison Wormald, 49, managing director of Fisons Ltd. another multimillion-dollar British chemical company. A onetime...
THE MIGHTY AND THEIR FALL, by I. Compton-Burnett (254 pp.; Simon & Schusfer; $4.50). With a country house and all its butlered, bachelored, dowagered, nurseried inhabitants, 70-year-old Ivy Compton-Burnett creates her own cosmos. Her scene is, like the Greek stage, mercilessly compact and periodically given to disquieting...