Word: gentlemens
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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William Alfred's Agamemnon is only incidentally a Greek tragedy. Rather, a world with a clearer justice than our own, his Agamemnon suits the tuxedoed gentlemen and gowned ladies who made it live in the theatre as well as those, more colorfully garbed, who live it in less pellucid form outside. It is a world of diamantine retribution; the wages of Agamemnon's and Clytemnestra's infidelity are hard and glittering...
...naked women bounce around after a while." The editors and the writers will undoubtedly insist that their frankness shows life as it is, that openness about sex belongs to the new trend in literature, and that the artist must be honest. Few would disagree with them. But proportion, gentlemen, proportion. The artist can be honest about other things as well. Exhibitionism is quite as distasteful in literature as anywhere else. If the undergraduate writer cannot do more than parade neuroses across the printed page, he fits Faulkner's definition of failure: "He writes not of love but of lust...
...What A Lovely War affirms the same belief: man en masse is a mess. But the tone and techniques are altogether different. "Tonight ladies and gentlemen, we are going to play a little game, the war game," intones the narrator at the outset, and onto the stage prance the players, garbed in black and white clown costumes. What follows would warm the heart of any Tocsinite (ne Ban the Bomber) as ridicule is liberally applied to the causes, beneficiaries, and leaders of World...
Though Cabinet, film and noble personalities were mentioned in court as having been involved with Ward or his girls, none of the gentlemen in question were called to testify. The widespread suspicion in Britain is that the defense did not call them because by telling the truth about Ward they would only have damaged his case, and that the prosecution did not call them because it did not wish to embarrass the Establishment. In general, serious observers fear that British courts are assuming, or are being forced to assume, too much authority as an arm of government, and recall...
Attorney Hollowell's address to the jury was executed with consummate artistry. The evidence adduced by the State, he declared, "was a slender reed, gentlemen, in the tide of the testimony." As a tribute to the power of his argument, the court adjourned until the next morning, hoping that the span of a single night would erase Hollowell's words from the jury's minds...