If you're not familiar with his style, then imagine this: he's an openly bisexual performer who plays with the tradition of camp comedy, but comes from a generation where camp is ironic, rather than a means of sheltering from an otherwise disapproving world.
No, it wasn't a Jewish festival, although Susan Sontag, in her infamous 1964 essay "Notes on Camp," does draw some comparisons between the largely homosexual tradition of camp and that of Jewish liberalism and reform, defining them as "the two pioneering forces of modern sensibility".
Although camping in England is illegal without the permission of the landowner, there is a tradition of wild camping in the Lake District.
The northern tradition of hunting camps -- rustic cabins on land that hunters have leased for years from timber companies -- will be preserved.
Without such gestures towards immediate topicality to ground their performances, Mark Rylance's Richard (at the Globe in 2003) and Jonathan Slinger's (at the RSC in 2007) mainly fell back into the role's older, alternative tradition of high camp.
I've carried on the tradition of singing camps songs in my own little family having rocked my own daughter to sleep when she was a baby to some of my own favorite camp songs set to the tune of "The House at Pooh Corner" and "The Circle Game".
Following the Rajput tradition of roving luxury camps, the tents contain comfortable sitting rooms, stone bathrooms, henna-painted bedrooms, locally crafted furniture – and the modern concession of Wi-Fi.
Like the camp tradition of which it partakes, the krewes' lightly debauched and thoroughly colorful balls were both an irreverent spoof of aristocratic tradition and a deadly serious protest against social injustice.
These writers -- let's call them pale-reds -- have not only made Rahv's dichotomy obsolete; they have also mothballed Cyril Connolly's well-known taxonomy that divided writers into the "mandarin" camp (in the tradition of Addison, Carlyle and Proust) and the "vernacular" camp (in the tradition of Hemingway and Forster).
