The first of four essays in the collection to take up this challenge with respect to Victorian poetry specifically is Catherine Robson's "How We Search Now: New and Old Ways of Digging Up Wolfe's 'Sir John Moore,'" a self-conscious reconstruction of her own "newfangled and
oldfangled" research methods for unearthing the "subterranean Wolfian traces" of "The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna" (1817) in British chaplains' memoires of the two Anglo-Boer Wars and World War I (p.
A poor, outmoded passion hobbling along its
oldfangled ways catching uncomfortably in the quicksilver channels of industrial exploitation.
A kind of romance blossoms for the lateblooming baby-boomers in this agreeably
oldfangled comedy.
What such novelists are looking for in those
oldfangled laboratories is sometimes mysterious to me; and how these daring writers differ from a very gifted but frankly traditional and more commercial historical novelist like Hilary Mantel is an anxiously unanswered question.
As Russell Kirk noted in his introduction to the 1986 edition of Literature and the American College, "The aim of the
oldfangled college education was ethical, the development of moral understanding and humane leadership; but the method was intellectual, the training of mind and conscience through well-defined literary disciplines." (8) We must not accuse the classical educators of a kind of moral reductionism, as though each reading or exercise had some alteration of character as its immediate object.
What makes Danny and his gang so winning, apart from their hip button-lipped swagger, is their
oldfangled ingenuity--their eagerness to spring any trick, from weighted roulette balls to a fake earthquake.In Ocean's Thirteen, the cons and gambits come at you thick and fast, and Clooney and his compatriots guide them all with such insular verbal code that the movie is beyond sly.
Ford (2001,269) describes developments as "modernist projects in postmodernist disguise," while Anderson (1991, 52) calls them "
oldfangled new towns."
Even CEOs of companies that are decidedly
oldfangled and analog need to think of ways to augment their businesses over the Internet.
Then there is the
oldfangled model, Barbara Bush, who gave out the recipe for her favorite oatmeal lace cookies on the trail and joked that the only training a woman needed to become first lady was "to marry well." Although she has more liberal views than her husband on issues important to women, such as abortion and gun control, Mrs.