Word: bartholomew
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Living Blight. The humanoid he has made and destroyed is George Bingham Lockwood of Swedish Haven, Pa., St. Bartholomew's ('91) and Princeton ('95), a not-quite gentleman whose masterly style of address covers and serves a cold-spirited egotism that blights every living thing within its reach. George Lockwood is first seen as he supervises the building of a manor house for himself outside the town where the murderous skulduggery of Grandfather Moses and the more genteel avarice of Father Abraham have made the Lockwoods one of the richest families in the area. But his chief...
...going to be entirely my own mistake." What Selznick did be lieve in was quality, talent and free-spending, and it turned out to be a formula that gave Hollywood some of its finest hours. Selznick's Bill of Divorcement introduced Katharine Hepburn to films; Freddy Bartholomew was discovered for David Copperfield; Alfred Hitchcock was imported to direct Rebecca...
...borrow in the domestic mar ket, whether to buy or sell sterling in foreign markets and - most important -whether to change the bank's interest rate. After each meeting the chief liai son man, Peter Daniell, dons his top hat, starts on a 21-minute walk across Bartholomew Lane in London's City. Precisely at 11:47 a.m., he marches into the stock exchange and, while bro kers crowd around him, announces the bank rate - the price of money...
...BARTHOLOMEW'S NIGHT (285 pp.) -Philippe Erlanger-Pantheon...
...Bartholomew's Night is an account of the August madness in 1572, when a confluence of chance, state policy and the religious hatreds of the Reformation caused the murder of at least 2,000, and perhaps as many as 100,000, Protestants. The book has its flaws. Author Erlanger, a French historian, has an extraordinary talent for making the complicated seem complicated, and too often the names he cites remain simply names. But his treatment is more thoughtful than is customary in day-it-happened books. The reader must be willing to work; if he is, he is well...