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But here Coleman's objective analysis ends. Rarely does he show a recognition that permanently performing a menial role crushes the working man's dignity in support of the upper class. Rather, any larger sense of the working man's plight is obfuscated by Coleman's personal search--for the...
An unabashed chauvinism runs through Cambridge Sketches. Its authors speak pridefully of the "the Cambridge idea," fawning on the natural features of the city. Mrs. Emma Endicott Marean writes about the discovery of the river Charles by Englishmen: "No Hudson was this beguiling stream, which promised much in its wide...
When his American teammates proposed the normal noon-time nourishment for red-blooded Americans, McDonald's, Crimson center Adrian Tew, the sole Englishman in Harvard's fifteen, reminded them of their manners (quitting the field and the Princeton-Columbia game in progress in favor of the Big Mac constitutes the...
By far the best piece of the evening was Todd Bolender's Souvenirs, a spoof of pre-World War I manners, mores and dress, with a setting that suggested a hotel in a Feydeau comedy. There is a small army of standard farce characters, including a jealous husband, a...
Almost outside the realm of Restoration comedy, The Plain Dealer is practically unique among its seventeenth century counterparts. Whereas the plays of Etherege, Congreve and Farquhar are characterized by a lack of genuine emotion, a plot of less weight than their racy, epigrammatic wit, and an absence of realism, William...