Word: mannerses
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THE EUROPEANS Directed by James Ivory Screenplay by Ruth Prawer Jhabvala The Europeans is one of Henry James' most delightful novels, a small, approachable comedy of manners, widely regarded among Jamesian scholars as the masterpiece of his early years. But the story of Eugenia and Felix, Europeanized sister and...
"Almost all of the characters are white because the play is set in 1927. It's a comedy of manners, so detail and realism are important because we're commenting on the times. So there are only certain roles--the butler, the maid, the boxing coach, the Indian servant--that...
Then the President took to the road to lobby for his energy proposals. But wherever he went, he was never able to escape the long shadow of his rival, not even aboard Air Force One on the way to his first stop, Hartford, Conn. As a courtesy he had invited...
Although Wolfe touches on space-race politics and the psychology of cour age, his views are neither unconventional nor meant to be. As our finest verbal illustrator of trends and fashions, he is interested in the truths that lie on surfaces. These truths are not superficial, though they are frequently...
But Diaghilev had already begun to make enemies. Even as a schoolboy, notes Buckle, Sergei had offended his friends by his "society manners" and a desire to "make calls, leave cards and write his name in the books of distinguished people." Foes pressed for his dismissal from the staff of...