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" They had lifted him to his feet , and were assisting him towards the door . " The new filings are not unexpected and do not change our strategy , " Merck spokesman Kent Jarrell said via e-mail . The women kept to the outskirts of the throng , moving now an then as if to see the drawn red blinds of the old house from a new angle , and talking in whispers . " Buchanan suggested that Reicin 's ascent from an entry-level researcher to a company vice president in just nine years was linked to the blockbuster success of Vioxx . For another thing , he could not yet think of that letter of Barrett 's , nor of a little scene that had followed it , without a mounting of colour and a quick contraction of the brow . Anthony Trollope labeled him " Mr. Popular Sentiment , " ; while George Eliot and Henry James both devised their conceptions of plot , character , and artistic purpose from careful - - and highly critical - - study of Dickens ' work . In 1895 , while The Importance of Being Earnest was in rehearsal , Wilde was in the middle of his troubled but long-term relationship with Lord Alfred Douglas , and was being pursued by Douglas 's father , the pugnacious and homophobic Marquis of Queensbury ( author of " Queensbury rules " of boxing ) . For the rest , his manner was the soothing manner of one who prefers not to make statements without knowing how they will be taken by his hearer . He was looking out of his window one midday rather tired , not very well , and glad that it was not very likely he would have to stir out of doors , when he saw Elsie Bengough crossing the square towards his house . " But for all of their epigramatic wit and paradoxical attitudes towards life , Oscar Wilde 's other 1890s society comedies ( Lady Windermere 's Fan , A Woman of No Importance , and An Ideal Husband ) are all serious " problem " dramas about the intractability of sexual double-standards and the personal costs of respectability , precisely those issues that Wilde appears ( at least ) to be satirizing in The Importance of Being Earnest . By coming together , while still retaining their own interests , representatives from various stakeholder groups create a more comprehensive and multi-faceted picture of the issue . Sorries - - We're not making a compelling case to groups outside ourselves ; our internal focus keeps us from communicating with our colleagues ; our loss of credibility with key decision makers ; that we've had to contort our missions to pursue funding . The place was full of a jugglery of dim lights . Without hesitation Oleron put out his hand and picked it up . Towards the end of the century , as the theatrical profession became more respectable , acting was no longer the exclusive province of theatrical families , social outcasts , and women of loose morals - - the class of people that centuries before had been legally classified as " rogues and vagabonds " ; and respectable , educated people from the middle classes could now enter the profession without too much social stigma . Throughout the century , whole scientific disciplines grew up around the threatening figures of criminals , homosexuals , paupers and hysterical women ; while even such seemingly innocuous topics as masturbation , nervousness and dirt were pervaded by a sense of danger and disgust . It was ascertained at the post-mortem that there was not a particle of food in his stomach , although he was found to be-not without money . While the paragraph above outlines the minimum work I expect you to do on the listserv , you are encouraged to respond to one another and to initiate discussions as often as you wish . Enough is laid on slavery , without fathering upon it these creations and contributions of Sir Walter . London is a city that absolutely vibrates with history - - to walk its streets is to understand what animated Dickens ' fiction , what inspired the special modernism of Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury coterie , what the Blitz meant for a city that had long regarded itself as the capital of the world .