Word: mannerized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Nehru's English patina, however, was deceptive. "Behind me," he wrote years after his return from Britain, "lie somewhere the subconscious racial memories of a hundred generations of Brahmans." Behind him, too, were conscious memories of hearing since childhood of the "overbearing character and insulting manner of English people . . . toward Indians." Those memories made him a champion of the underdog and filled him with his own intense brand of racial prejudice. "I try to be impartial and objective," he noted in his autobiography, "but the Asiatic in me influences my judgment whenever an Asiatic people are concerned...
Best scenes are those of the late great Andalusian Manolete, who was fatally gored in Linares, Spain in 1947 at the age of 30. The long-nosed, sad-eyed Manolete performs the weaving dance of death with the black bull in a manner as purely simple and beautiful as he himself was homely, gives the aspiring aficionado a hint of the poetry of blood that has fascinated writer-intellectuals from Théophile Gautier to Hemingway...
...reasoning. "The bog water is rapidly rising in my brain," Butler finds, and obedient to the hypnosis that compels non-Irish reporters to write in a kind of stage Irish when describing St. Patrick's Day parades, he begins to talk in the wild, oblique, subjunctive manner of the natives...
...third act has undeniable farce in it, it is a mistake to consider the whole play a farce: it is high comedy, near-farce if you like, but not true farce. I am sure the first two acts would come off better if treated in a less overdone manner...
...from the start he found himself devastatingly attractive to girls-and they to him. Yet Rex was never a playboy who happened to act. Even in his teens he was an actor who liked to play. Said a fellow actor of those days: "Rex always had a most commanding manner. You felt you didn't want him to leave the company. If he said he was going, you felt you had to press him to have another drink so he would stay...