Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Rosalie Phillips is too forced in her presentation of The Mother. You can almost see her preparing each line before she delivers it to produce the "maximum effect." And while Mike Owens paces around and wrings his hands, he just doesn't seem to believe in what he's doing...
Manners Over Math. With as many as ten applicants for every pupil who can be admitted, at least a few private schools have been lazily content to teach manners better than math. Some parents whose children have gone to both private and public schools argue that the few good public...
Troubled & Sad. Crisp reminders of everyday reality shocked and estranged his 16th century public; he even got fired midway through work on frescoes for the duomo in Cremona. Today his inventive if taciturn brilliance is earning him increasing admiration. He is recognized more and more as a man of his...
Sir: Those who wrote that your picture of the dead soldier was tasteless [June 18] should realize that war and the battlefield have no regard for fine manners and decorum. "Good taste" is only for those who are safe and snug before their fires, trying desperately to shut out the...
Amado reads his characters in depth. There is no facile division into good guys and bad guys, and everyone's motives are mixed. The lawyer, Virgilio, who helps Horacio outwit the Badarós, also seduces Horacio's pretty wife. And spade-bearded Sinhó Badaró, who...