Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...glory days of Empire, English art buyers plundered the riches of Italy, France and Greece. But since World War II, the down-at-heel British lion has been unable to compete with Americans, Japanese, and assorted European collectors in the all too open international art market. As a result they have begun to concentrate on simply hanging onto whatever treasures they already have. They rallied round to raise $4 million, thus saving a Titian. But another masterpiece ?Velásquez's portrait of his assistant Juan de Pareja, for example, was snatched from them in 1970 by a $5.5 million...
After plastering London with handsome SAVE THE STUBBS posters, the Tate managed to collect $900,000. By November they were still short, when aid came from an unexpected source. Philanthropist Paul Mellon, who recently gave much of his priceless collection of 18th and 19th century British paintings to Yale, had been considered the most likely foreign buyer if the Tate fell short. But Mellon, a self-styled "galloping Anglophile," felt the paintings should stay in England. He contributed four paintings from his private collection, two Vuillards, a Bonnard and a Giacometti, to a benefit auction. They went for about...
Television situation comedy does a pretty good job of airing and disarming class anxieties. Most modern American fiction, on the other hand, remains generally psychological. In contrast, British novels still draw their deepest breaths from society and manners. Wilfrid Sheed, a wily English-born Catholic intellectual, can work both sides of the North Atlantic. Sheed's sharp, entertaining essays and reviews have earned him a reputation as one of America's best literary journalists; he is also a judge for the Book-of-the-Month Club. His previous novels, which include A Middle Class Education, Max Jamison...
Transatlantic Blues is about a different purgatory: that clammy conscience-ridden cell between worldly success and a proud otherworldly tradition. Stylistically, the novel is the nonstop confession of Monty (né Pendrid) Chatworth, a British-born American TV interviewer. He is something of an Anglo-American Alexander Portnoy, but with a crucial difference. Portnoy, draped over a psychiatrist's couch, complained that his lust was repugnant to his stern Hebraic morality and that his morality was repugnant to his sexual nature. Chatworth, slumped in his seat high above the Atlantic, confesses to his tape recorder ("Father Sony") that...
Painstakingly researched, the book is the product of 35 contributing authors whose specialties run from marine biology to meteorology, and whose affiliations include such prestigious organizations as the Scripps Institution of Oceanography, the British Museum and a London-based group of scuba divers. Profusely illustrated with color photographs and specially prepared maps and charts, the book is also a visual delight. But the best feature of this large-format look at aqueous zones is its arrangement. Starting with the origin of the oceans some 4 billion years ago, it moves on through the formation and movement of the continents...