Word: aristocratic
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...usurper; or of Norman Wooland as a gentle, modest, steadfast and wise Horatio. Stanley Holloway, as the Gravedigger, is blessedly out-of-tradition;* he seemed to have learned his lines from the earth itself, not from "Shakespearean" pseudo-rustics. Terence Morgan, as Laertes, is the quintessence of an old aristocrat's fine, somewhat spoiled son. For once, Queen Gertrude is young enough, and beautiful enough, to explain all the excitement she generates in the Ghost, his murderer and her son. Indeed, Eileen Herlie, who is only 27, has some trouble looking old enough to be the beauteous Majesty...
...Scum. Top specimen of social scum is Adrien de Pontillac, French aristocrat and Vichyite ruler of Marseille. His instincts refined to a delicate dimension of amorality, De Pontillac is one of the lovely brutes who classifies women by zoological categories, and has made indifference to other people into an art of living. When orders come from Vichy to round up all Jews into internment camps, he sets about his task with the precision of an official in an abattoir...
Something Blue. Dzerzhinsky was succeeded by another aristocrat, Vyacheslav Rudolfovich Menzhinsky. Before the revolution Menzhinsky wrote a prophecy: "If Lenin ever reaches power in fact, and not in imagination, he will make a mess of it, the like of one made by Czar Paul I. ... Leninists are a clan of political gypsies, with a strong voice and a love for wielding the knout, imagining that it is their inherent right to serve as coachmen for the laboring masses...
Hero Without Aim. But India is no longer the India of Forster's book. The hero of Son of the Moon is a young Hindu aristocrat-his family traces its descent from the moon-who has made the first solo flight from India to England. Vijay has acted and become a hero, idolized by his people, with limitless opportunities before...
...story of the aristocrat who wrote music full of crude peasant power, and his downhill rush from dandy to drunk, is as dramatic as any in music. Many of the facts, but few of the explanations, can be found in a newly published compilation of letters by & about him, called The Musorgsky Reader (edited & translated by Jay Leyda and Sergei Bertensson; Norton...