Word: beerbohm
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...Beerbohm barely deserved, and did not desire, a place in English literature. His was an ephemeral talent, applied to composition so frail that the winds of time have blown most of his work away. The literate Beerbohm is remembered chiefly for Zuleika Dobson, his comic novel of Oxford, and his graceful caricatures of the leading figures of his day. Sir Max was also one of the most delightful human beings who ever lived: tolerant, unassuming, a witty conversationalist, unfailingly kind. To know Max was to cherish him, and as a consequence, his friends and admirers have converted his niche into...
Touching Glimpses. Now Lord David Cecil, whose earlier works apostrophized such eminences as Melbourne, Dickens, Cowper, Thackeray and Hardy, has lighted a long memorial candle for little Max. It is entirely a labor of love, suggested to him by Lady Beerbohm in 1956, the year Max died. "She told me," says Cecil in the preface, "that her husband had wished me to write his biography." Cecil regarded it as both an honor and a command...
...years, Life & Loves was a prime piece of erotica in intellectual and academic circles. After all, it was not merely dirty. Harris was a literary figure, an editor of some stature in late-Victorian London, a familiar of such wits as Oscar Wilde, Max Beerbohm and Bernard Shaw. Between beds, his book is studded with "As I said to Lord Asquith . . ." and intimate tidbits that every conscientious scholar should know about the private life of literary personages ranging from Thomas Carlyle to Guy de Maupassant. Harris' obsession with and clinical description of his mistresses' vital organs could...
...fashion, he drowned his sorrow at his loss of faith by working to keep alive a critical spirit in an age of complacency. Though his purpose was solemn. Arnold often indulged in levity that disturbed the specific gravity of fellow Victorians-and led to a cartoon by irreverent Max Beerbohm (see cut') mocking them both. The cultural history of man, he wrote in Culture and Anarchy, his most famous essay, is an interplay between what Arnold called Hebraism-the urge of conscience to follow the best moral light man has-and Hellenism-the spirit of inquiry that constantly questions...
Only four actors in history have played Prince Hamlet more than 100 times in a single production?Sir Henry Irving, Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Sir John Gielgud, and Richard Burton. Moreover, Burton was the longest-running Hamlet in the history of the late Old Vic, where Hamlets were kept in the repertory only as long as the box office remained strong...