Word: mannish
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...mere fundamentals of staging. The greatest fault with the present production is that it is played throughout on too shrill a key. Miss Friedman is allowed to shout her lines most of the time, thereby making some of them unintelligible. Moreover, her interpretation of the lesbian is so rigidly mannish as to become a caricature. Miss O'Connel is pleasing to gaze upon and believable as the heartless woman. Mr. Franklin brings an unusually fine voice to the role of the coward, and gives a good performance...
...lifelong friend, Serenus Zeitblom, a professor, a dedicated parlor humanist and a typically humorless academic product of pre-Hitler German Kultur. This combination of dates, musical genius and philosophical reflection gives Mann, as his old readers could easily guess, a chance to air his views on such Mannish concerns as the problem of the artist in society, the free play of mind v. regimented thought, the relationship of disease to creative activity and the "German problem," before, during & after Hitler. Faustus can in fact be read as an intellectual sequel to The Magic Mountain, that massive and brilliant examination...
Among others there are Sir Storrington Thirst ("he had a habit of laying his hands upon you"); mannish Asta Thundersley (she collects paintings of "tumors wearing spectacles, wombs in aspic, ulcers in floral hats"); The Tiger Fitzpatrick, spavined prizefighter ("all I want is a chance at this so-called Braddock"); Mothmar Acord ("a dish-shaped face, discolored by oriental suns and high fevers") ; Sinclair Wensday ("a cocaine personality . . . tall and popular . . . Galahad gone to the devil"). At his best Author Kersh writes like a comic Soho Gorki, drawing wicked, lively sketches of the barflies, pimps, fairies and phonies of London...
...colored, shapeless wool Mother Hubbard called a djibbah,* talked in a full-voiced, fruity accent. The Roedean Girl knew how to play cricket and to "play the game"; she never "let the side down," never "sneaked," always "pulled her weight." In caricature and often in fact, she was a mannish, muscular, back-slapping bluestocking...
Died. Dame Ethel Smyth, 86, Eng land's top woman composer (Mass in D), writer (As Time Went On), onetime suffragette; in Woking, Surrey. Mannish Dame Ethel was once jugged for throwing a brick through the Home Secretary's window. She also smoked cigars...