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Relics of Feudalism. Hughes begins his history of the time of troubles as history itself begins-in apparent inconsequence. Hughes does not endow his characters with his own hindsight but sets them moving blindly into orbit. Augustine Penry-Herbert is the protagonist. In 1923, he is a young aristocrat, just out of Oxford, who spends his time shooting geese and snipe on the wild marshes of the coast of north Wales. His ancestral house, Newton Llantony, is servantless, its furniture shrouded in dust cloths. He ignores his feudal standing in the village, which is peopled by eccentrics, beldames, drunks...
...reader, told that this is supposed to be a history of the times, is baffled, but finding himself reading about a lonely aristocrat living in a remote Welsh backwater, through an art that is little short of magical, he slowly comes to understand and accept Augustine, with his pacifist, anarchist rationalism, as a type-figure of his English class and generation...
...gentlemen who took the Grand Tour got the urge to make a visual record of what they saw, and it became a matter of pride to know how to draw. As early as 1622, Henry Peacham's The Compleat Gentleman included drawing as an essential part of the aristocrat's education; later editions of the book contained a whole section on "Lantskip.'' The aristocratic amateurs produced no masterpieces of their own, but they set the stage for the watercolor's golden age that was soon to come...
...society, claims as his most illustrious guest aging Hjalmar Schacht, Hitler's economic wizard. Gina Lollobrigida has membership card 101. Other card carriers include German Stars Curt Jurgens and Winnie Markus, Tape-Recorder Tycoon Max Grundig, onetime Boxing Champ Max Schmeling, Film Producer Ilse Kugaschweski, and one registered aristocrat: Friedrich Carl Prince Fugger von Babenhausen...
...Guayaquil, in Andean towns, and finally in the capital of Quito itself, angry students and workers raced through cobbled streets stoning police and overturning cars. Egging on the mobs were the usual Communist agitators and one important political figure, Ecuador's Vice President Carlos Julio Arosemena, 42, an aristocrat turned leftist, who pointedly ignored Adlai Stevenson's visit last June, flew off instead to Moscow and returned calling Nikita Khrushchev "my friend." From his seat presiding over the Senate, Arosemena denounced the taxes and called Velasco Ibarra "a dictator." As the mobs grew more threatening, police fired...