Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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M. Cadet is right. His people are most gentle. Their manners are superior to mine. And their morals are no worse. Only good has ever come to me from M. Cadet or his people or from the Voodoo God Dambala.
Conformity v. Individualism, however seems much less a theme than a mere gimmick, exactly as picturing the bride as the Sleeping Beauty seems facile fancy rather than vital symbolism. Whatever the play may thematically profess, much of it theatrically is just old Wilde in new bottles: the triangle, in A...
"Other countries may offer you discoveries in manners or lore or landscape; Greece offers you something harder-the discovery of yourself." See BOOKS, Adrift on a Wine-Dark Sea.
Corfu (Prospero's Cell) and Rhodes (Reflections on a Marine Venus). First published in England in 1945 and 1952, the two short books confirm Durrell's superlative gifts as a travel writer. As with Hemingway, part of his strength lies in using scenery to intensify personal states of...
Some of the characters are played with more enterprise than others. Daniel Seltzer's independent, personable Ulysses, Robert Thurman's willowy, boyish Troilus, William Fitz-Hugh's dim-witted Ajax with his fatuous pride, Alvarez Bulos' slippery Pandarus with oily speech and manners, David Stone's manly Hector, Travis Linn...