Word: mannerses
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One might say that a successful drama of manners cannot be located in a highly mobile society. But that is probably overinterpreting the failure of Beacon Hill. More likely it is just a case of commercial television once again to trust the intelligence of its audience.
Haricleia had the manners of a grande dame and the temperament of a neurasthenic. In later years she expected Constantine to spend the hours of 7:30 to 10 p.m. as her dinner companion and to act as her gentleman-escort at social functions. Constantine seems not to have bridled...
The message of it all is what you would expect from a middle-class comedy of manners: people who put on airs run into trouble. People in The Pedagogues are forever getting carried away with their own pretensions. Groch decides he is a genius because he writes lines like
Bared Portions. Something other than nostalgia peddling is going on; these are good and compelling writers. But what, exactly, is their game? Why accept the strictures of Victorianism in an epoch of total license? One answer is social criticism posing as irony: actualities mutely placed against canting ideals. A second...
In our homogenized age it is hard to realize how great seemed the differences between the colonies, how long were those miles that we now cover in an hour by air. Differences had accumulated as the population spread out and as the colonial decades wore on. In 1760 the shrewd...