Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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THESE DAYS comedies of manners are out of favor, especially those that are deliberately artificial. Jules and Jim gets by because of its apparent faithfulness to lifelike detail and incident. But Truffaut's favorite pastime is to manipulate his audiences. Forcing us to identify with his characters, he hides an...
FARINA'S ascension to the ranks of cultural, or more accurately subcultural, hero-dome, was effected in the most plastic of manners. Prior to his death, he was known only to a small group of folks, who were at that time a hard dying race. His public work consisted of...
While it is difficult to predict what Forsyte's fate will be in America, it deserves to gather a coterie of faithful followers. The series is a stylish and fast-paced portrayal of Victorian morals and manners as evidenced by one fascinating family. On one hand, it is gripping...
An applicant from a Southern high school, for example, solicited reports from two teachers. "I believe he is a deserving student," one wrote. The admissions committee reads that 10,000 times a year, Peterson says, and "it's hard to keep listening." The other teacher wrote, "Despite his humble and...
IN EITHER case, though, you'd best expect a good bit of violence. Violence, along with a cataclysmic sense of emergency, has become pretty fashionable here of late. It makes life at Harvard alternately exciting, exhausting, and intolerable. Our Harvard-in its prose and its "politics" -practices a kind of...