Word: styles
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this production won't gain Gilbert and Sullivan any new admirers, particularly since The Mikado's theme (almost alone among Gilbert's plots) deals with more than minor, absurd social issues of the Victorian age, such as cleaning up salty language (Pinafore), Walter Pater-style aestheticism (Patience), and the House of Lords (Iolanthe). The Mikado, like some of Shakespearian and Johnsonian comedy, is about the impossibility and immorality of repressing the passions. It is the play in which Gilbert moves farthest away from the Victorian center he usually represented and comes closest to criticizing society as well as ridiculing social...
...terribly excited." ∎ President Valery Giscard d'Estaing, 48, promised to give the French a relaxed political style when he was elected last May. Now the French are wondering what he meant. Recently, the satirical weekly Canard Enchaine reported that the President's Citroen had collided with a milk truck at 5 a.m. in Paris. Last week it claimed that he is a security risk, too often out of touch with his Elysee Palace office and the red button that controls the force de frappe. ∎ Then for the first time, the nation's respected liberal daily...
...weeks after Richard Nixon resigned last August, the editors of Bungei-Shunju, a respected Tokyo-based monthly, decided to do a little Watergate-style digging into the shady financial dealings of their own chief executive. Largely as a result of those excavations, Premier Kakuei Tanaka was forced last week to resign...
What could be more personal than that?" As the work on the walls attests, under the stress of the moment style becomes a reflex of the eye, but no less individual for that...
...take strong exception to your position that such diverse sexual life-styles as swinging (mate swapping), group sex and bisexuality can be grouped with open marriage as declining "odd" forms of experimentation. To compare the fad of swinging, which has affected at most 2% of married couples, with sexually and emotionally open, co-marital relationships is simply an overgeneralization. It is probable that singlehood with multiple sexual and love relationships, open marriage and traditional monogamy are already the major life-style choices...