Word: mannerses
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With his $5 million inheritance, the widower Bingham bought the Louisville Courier-Journal, but it was under his son's stewardship that the paper developed a liberal editorial voice and worked its way onto the short list of the country's best newspapers. Though Mary wrote some of the editorials...
It was no coincidence that Collier's Short View of the Stage came out in 1698. Today, the play is recognized as being, in the words of one critic, "Congreve's masterpiece, the finest English achievement in the comedy of manners." Whatever the merits of the production being reviewed, the...
Our wariness in dealing with Israel has thus contradicted our normal noisy, scrutinizing attitudes. Constraint has prevailed, as a sign not of manners but of dishonesty. Most of America has a strong familial affection for Israel (inasmuch as any country has affection for another) as a people, a democracy or...
World employs two common themes of Restoration comedies: courtly manners and the difficulties of love. There is a great deal of witty dialogue and a plot involving a series of deceptions and betrayals that eventually lead to a union of two lovers. Unfortunately, the two pages of background information included...
Many Britons seem prepared to accept that British manners, a tradition no less dear than the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace, are in decline. What roils some Brits is that Americans are giving the advice. Harrumphed a commentator in the Daily Mail: "Surely it is the depth of...