Word: wildean
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...school that has rarely fared well in public esteem, expecially in the U.S. Fin de si�cle examples were customarily tainted by a kind of Wildean flounce, or could be made to seem so. More often the doctrine has been propounded to excuse artistic self-indulgence, sheer gush, or at best the refined outpourings of private feeling. None of these excesses apply to Nabokov. Few writers have brought to the practice of art for art's sake?or indeed to thematic literature?the enormous talent and discipline, the overwhelming intellectual grasp, the scrupulously objective range of eye and ear that...
Heavy on talk. Photo Finish needed to approximate the Shavian paradox or the Wildean epigram. But Ustinov's dialogue tends to be smart rather than sharp, cracks wise when it should be wise. Photo Finish is not about to take win or place in the dramatic sweepstakes, but it is a safe, friendly show...
...Eliot's odd plays, The Cocktail Party is quite possibly the oddest. At times the characters flourish an almost Wildean wit; at others they sit around quoting passages that sound like they were deleted from an early draft of the Four Quartets.. Needless to say, it is when Eliot is Wildest that the play is most interesting; only the drollery, in fact, makes it produceable...
...expressive possibilities of light perhaps more fully than any director alive. And he uses sound-and silence-with the skill and sensitivity of a composer. With subtle verve and dazzling control, he can alternate dreamy love with Gothic horror or wonderfully bawdy hilarity. He is equally at home with Wildean wit and low Shakespearean vaudeville. Like a gadfly, Bergman buzzes about his favorite target: the normal, healthy, inadequate male. ("Grown men are so rare," one of his women says sweetly to her husband, "that we pick the child who suits...