In "Eccentricities of a Blond-Haired Girl," from 2009, a childhood and its antiquated, seemingly ancient manners peel away to reveal equally ancient, unsatisfied, and still-smoldering passions.
Considered a revelation of ancient manners, the work has been praised for its entertaining and at times bawdy episodes that alternate between the dignified, the ludicrous, the voluptuous, and the horrible.
The poet Ottavio Rinuccini claimed that Peri's two works with music - Dafne (1598) and Euridice (1600), both to Rinuccini's libretti - were the first to revive the ancient manner of reciting in music.
Because the regime had shut down access to the Internet, he filed "in the ancient manner" — by fax or by dictating his pieces to an operator in the newsroom in Tel Aviv.
But in the ancient manner of the Yankees — giving a second chance to useful players — they brought him back this year as a role player, and it was like taking a refresher course in Yankee-ness.
A probably ancient manner of measuring flute stops in Mindanao dividing flute segments into proportional lengths to produce the octave, fifth, and other intervals recalls a very old Chinese account of cutting bamboo tubes into lengths that would sound these same intervals.
Perhaps, in the ancient manner, our arrival was being announced.
There's also a sequence in which they and their friends sit at lunch shooting the breeze, and you realise exactly what Before Midnight is – a philosophical symposium in the Ancient Greek manner.
"I hold," he writes, "none of these ancient short manner of writings, nor Montaigne's, nor such of this latter time to be rightly termed essays, for though they be short, yet they are strong, and able to endure the sharpest trial: but mine are essays, who am but newly bound prentice".**** From this initial mushroom ring of essayists that crops up on the island around 1600, an infestation spreads.
Or as the French immigrant Jean de Crèvecoeur put it in 1782, the "ancient prejudices and manners" have been left behind by the new American man, who has received "new ones from the new mode of life he has embraced".
Its handling irresistibly calls to mind the manner of Florentine sculpture reviving the Ancient Roman style in the age of Michelangelo.
