Word: arthurian
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...Mortimer Wheeler, the eminent British archaeologist, talking, and he went on to say that he thinks he's even found Arthur's Camelot. It's in South Cadbury, 100 miles southwest of London, where Sir Mortimer's diggers came up with a hoard of "Arthurian matter" on the site of an old castle. No armor or swords or pennants, mind you, but bits of pottery, some iron knives, and a pin dating back to the 6th century...
...major, Laing made an unlikely switch from arms to art. A Sandhurst graduate, he was a lieutenant in the Royal Northumberland Fusiliers for four years, resigned to enter a London art school. At first, Laing had a "hairy idea about art." He was a bug on things historical, vaguely Arthurian, and even named his daughter Yseult. One day, he saw a photographic essay on sky diving. The imagery of swooping man below the billowing, brightly colored gores of a parachute combined his interest in the contem porary heroic figure with a desire for strong formal arrangement...
...whom Raphael was the exemplar. True sentiment, whether religious or secular, had vanished from art in the eyes of the Pre-Raphaelites, so they turned to a literary, historic past that supplied them with heartfelt admiration for purity and chivalry. Established themes from Shakespeare, the Bible and the Arthurian legends furnished ready references. In oils, the brotherhood tried to evoke the natural piety that a verse of St. Mark's, a pentameter of Dante's, or a quatrain of Keats's inspired. In short, they were sick of portrait puffery...
...books, the Arthurian epic is a profound and pious chronicle of his nation's founding, the glory of an age that never seemed Dark to White. From it came the Matter of Britain, the lesson of greatness, and White was its subtle sage. Bombay-born, the son of an Indian army officer, he was "a nostalgic Tory" who had little sympathy for Sir Grummore Grummurson, as he called Colonel Blimp's Arthurian ancestor. White did not lament the decline of empire so much as the withering of English virtues commended by 15th century Printer William Caxton: "Chyvalrye, curtoyse...
Died. Terence Hanbury White, 57, classic chronicler of the Arthurian legend; of a heart attack; in Piraeus, Greece (see THE WORLD...