Word: brideshead
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...mixed reports from these former classmates. Yale's Professor Brooks, a member of the Fly Club, recalls that there was a "tremendous amount of drinking. Not to get drunk, but it seemed that there was a cocktail party every night of the week during the Spring, somewhat reminiscent of Brideshead Revisited." Yale, he says, is, "on the whole grubbier and lacking in that certain elegance and anglophilia that Harvard's always maintained...
...technique can dazzle the audience. In fact, I relieve that they are moved by the strucyure of the work, not by an actor going through hoops and dancing on high wires." They are indeed moved. With his slim, saturnine good looks, Irons (best known as Charles Ryder in Brideshead...
...life--a week that epitomizes why Buckley remains simultaneously one of American conservatism's greatest proponents and one of its greatest liabilities. At his best, he is the intellectual dean of American conservatives--articulate, witty, brilliant and often dazzling. It is this Buckley who hosts a special on Brideshead Revisited, writes a thrice weekly conservative column, publishes essays everywhere. This is the Buckley that historian Theodore H. White called "the rarest American conservative." This Buckley tells a Crimson editor that his "hope" for a Harvard debate with John Kenneth Galbraith "is that my knowledge of economics should trickle down...
...played the austere, ironic butler in Arthur, for which he won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1982, and he was Charles Ryder's comically aloof father in TV's Brideshead Revisited. But he was also, to give only a partial list, the anti-Semitic Cambridge don in Chariots of Fire, Lord Irwin in Gandhi, a doge of Venice in NBC's Marco Polo, Albert Speer's father in ABC's Inside the Third Reich, Pope Pius XII in CBS's The Scarlet and the Black, a crooked art dealer in Sphinx...
...turned out, the rather unremarkable bust had Brideshead Revisited overtones: the silent co-defendant was Eric Breindel, 27, an aide with the Senate's Select Committee on Intelligence for New York Democrat Daniel P. Moynihan. Says an older friend: "He is a golden youth, this kid. He is loyal, honorable, fine, delicate, conscientious and loving...