Word: anthonyism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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JOHN AUBREY AND HIS FRIENDS (335 pp.)-Anthony Powell-Scribner ($5).
Aubrey struck one of his contemporaries as "shiftless . . . roving . . . magotie-headed, and sometimes little better than crazed." Yet his collection of yarns and records is today one of Oxford University's most priceless possessions. Anthony Powell's new biography of Aubrey (the first written in more than a...
Rarely has a show reached its 100th-performance milestone in spite of a hostile press. All for Love is rarer still: it got there in spite of an apathetic public. Its only impetus has come from a stubbornly stagestruck millionaire named Anthony Brady Farrell, an angel with the largest wingspread...
"I don't give a darn about money," says Impresario Farrell, grandson of Util-itycoon ($85 million) Anthony Nicholas Brady. "There's no sense making a lot of it. You just have to give it away in taxes." But promoters and crackpots who have set snares for some...
Pratt begins with essays on the temper and tactics of such well-known generals as Greene, who forced Cornwallis into his hopeless position at Yorktown, and "Mad Anthony" Wayne, the hero of Fallen Timbers. But it is Country Squire Jacob Brown, onetime secretary of Alexander Hamilton, whom Chronicler Pratt considers...