Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Although aristocratically Old-World in manners, the members of the group were thorough democrats when it came to running the quartet. They shared its profits equally-at their financial peak in the '50s, they made about $40,000 a year each-and put all disputes to a vote. Deciding...
Ideally, in compliance with pro football's strict rule that all complaints about officiating be made privately and in writing, that is the kind of sweet demurrer Commissioner Pete Rozelle would have liked to receive from the Redskins' coach. Graham, however, chose the more traditional method of disputing...
The theater lights dim. The audience hushes. It is that tingling, anticipatory moment before the curtain rises. Suddenly, bouzouki music shreds the air, and in orchestra seat D-113 Jean Kerr says with a trace of apprehension: "Sounds like we are back at Zorbd." The fear proves groundless. True, the...
When Brecht's own Berliner Ensemble performs the play, the discipline and virtuosity of the company turn a somewhat silly drama into a comic nightmare. European experience underlines every speech with blood. But Americans tend to regard gangsters with nostalgic indulgence as individualistic resistance fighters against society (witness the...
Tell and Tell. In choosing and fitting together the pieces of this biographical jigsaw, the author has shown rare dignity. She has submerged such feminine solidarity as she may have felt for Effie in a measured view of the manners and morals of both parties and of the age in...