Word: mannerses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Sir: Your article brought back vividly my mother's gentle complaint: "I am a Southerner, a Catholic and a woman, all of whom are now treated like second-class citizens!" She never became more vocal than that-however, influencing all who knew her far more with her peerless manners...
Such tough-mindedness was bound to get Li into trouble with fervent Maoists. During the Cultural Revolution, Red Guards threatened to "bombard" and "burn" him. Protected by Chou, one of his closest associates, Li survived. With strong links to the army, government and party, he is in a position to...
After that, I went to the Central School of Speech and Drama in London for a condensed course on eighteenth century English drama, then returned to Harvard to use this training for She Stoops to Conquer. The problem with this show was that our experience with style and manners was...
The drawback to Grotowski's method is that while it would work perfectly in Hamlet, it would be no good at all for a superb comedy of manners like The Importance of Being Earnest. In the arrogant exclusivity of his definition of drama, Grotowski elevates the director and the...
If this play is anchored in English manners and the English countryside, and if it is best rendered in this context, then The Winter's Tale is almost at an opposite pole. At least it was so produced by Trevor Nunn.