Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...judge sent for the jury. The twelve white men filed into their seats. "Gentlemen," said the judge, "have you made any progress since the last time...
...What kind of man is this Rowe that comes into a fraternal organization by hook or crook?" cried Murphy. "He cares not what he swears to, and let me say this, gentlemen: he took an oath when he joined the United Klans of America. Remember Judas Iscariot! [Rowe] took this oath with his hand raised to Almighty God in joining the United Klans of America...
...social realism." He imagined himself an American Zola, and set out to describe the ordinary lives of ordinary people in ordinary language. He stamped all over the parlor niceties of Victorian tradition and proclaimed in a booming voice that heroines are not often virgins heroes are not usually gentlemen. He did not necessarily punish the wicked. Indeed, in Dreiser's novels good and evil do not exist-there is only unheroic suffering and scrambling for success. In retrospect, his prose seems clotted, clumsy, pompous, prolix, humorless, flatulent and dull. An American Tragedy ran to 385,000 words...
Freeways & Broadway. Although the book is terse and sometimes cramped, Morison takes time for digressions-for instance, an unimportant but charming section on the sporting life of New England gentlemen. Perhaps the book's dominant note is nostalgia, and Morison avoids involvement in most concerns of other historical theorists, including the urbanization of America, the new influence of the Supreme Court...
...credit to visits by the Royal Danish and Royal Ballet actually originated in America's Ballet Theatre-the cradle of Jerome Robbins, Michael Kidd and Eugene Loring, to name a few. If anyone had anything to do with freeing the male danseur of sexual suspicion it was these gentlemen, and, of course, Agnes de Mille. Martha Graham, as well, influenced more forms of the arts than people would like to admit. To witness Miss Graham standing still for one minute has all the oomph of a Nureyev dancing for an entire evening...