Word: mannerses
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ALEXANDER WOOLLCOTT, the broadest wit of the twentieth century, returns to abuse and tickle the audience of Howard Teichmann's elegant one man show, Smart Aleck. Peter Boyden brings a lighthearted grace to the stage as the New York Times critic and founder of the Algonquin Round table. He evokes...
That, stripped of the nudging and stylistic razzle-dazzle that pad the book to length, is the gist of Wolfe's argument. It looks familiar, as travesties must. The dismantling of modernist dogma has been going on for ten years or more; it has been a prime staple of...
For hundreds of hours, Trilling observed the adjudication of this "respectable murder" from a press seat in the White Plains county courthouse. Little escapes an eye trained by the textures and details of the 19th century novel of manners. In fact, the Jean Harris case provides Trilling with all the...
Special care is taken to placate motorists. Woonerf designers oppose the American torture of bumps and humps to slow down autos, relying instead on an environment in which the driver feels like a privileged guest who must mind his manners. "We don't want to irritate people in cars...
But there are real people moving through this movie's rooms, historical characters driven by private obsessions. By insisting that the audience share the weight of the traditions that pressed down upon the actual people, by forcing attention on the nuances of manners and speech of England in the...