Word: aristocrats
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...These canvas Lolitas have aroused much arch speculation, which Balthus turns aside by jokingly pointing out that he was born in a leap year, and that "having had only twelve birthdays, I may consider myself only twelve years old." Outwardly, this man of twelve is every inch the worldly aristocrat who can converse brilliantly, if somewhat distractedly, in French, Italian, German and English. He is the most painstaking of artists: he may require as many as 40 sittings for a portrait, turns out only about five new canvases a year...
Snake Man, by Alan Wykes. More remarkable than any of the rare snakes he has captured is C.J.P. Ionides, a legendary eccentric whose life displays all the imperious instincts of the aristocrat without an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman...
...Ionides became successively an ivory poacher, a big game hunter, a game warden, and a devout herpetologist. Piecing all these lives of a non-pukka sahib together, Biographer Alan Wykes, a London magazine editor, has drawn a fascinating profile of a man with all the imperious instincts of an aristocrat and not an inhibiting trace of the code of a gentleman. Snake Man neatly blends action and memory, talk and adventure, snake lore and Ionides lore...
...Bedroom, by P. G. Wodehouse. Yet another out-of-plumb castle in the air, designed by the old master-this one inhabited by a tiddly young aristocrat named Freddy Widgeon, and besieged by a villain named Oofy Prosser...
...Oedipus. The silhouette of Max that emerges is "incomparable" (as Shaw lastingly dubbed him), partly because the 20th century was not comparable to Max. Temperamentally, Sir Max (as he came to be in 1939) was an aristocrat; sartorially, he was a dandy; intellectually, he was a conservative. Even less appealing to an age of total inflation was Max's insistence on "limits," especially his own: "My gifts are small. I've used them very well and discreetly, never straining them; and the result is that I've made a charming little reputation." Bigness, grandiose gestures, Utopian schemes...