Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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The trouble is that Playwright Orton did not set out to write a comedy of manners but a Stygian comedy of morals. Dipping his brush in the bile of Swift, he has managed to paint only an urban pastiche of Tobacco Road.
Talk Thesaurus. One of Berenson's frequent guests, Count Umberto Morra, had bad manners and took notes; and these notes, recorded between 1931 and 1940, have now been assembled in a book that will not soon find its equal as a thesaurus of talk.
A PURCELL ANTHOLOGY (Angel). Some youthful discretions by England's greatest composer, performed in singing style by Violinists Yehudi Menuhin and Alberto Lysy and members of the Bath Festival Orchestra. Mood and key flash from dark to bright in the short, rich trio sonatas and free-form fantasias for...
Latest bench mark on U.S. manners and morals:
Few whites in the Deep South can afford perspective. Carter can because he has otherwise impeccable credentials. His sheer elegance protects him from his segregationist neighbors, even endears him to them. To be on the wrong side of "the Negro question" is contemptible (at the very least) in his state...