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Since the two countries are worlds apart in spirit and institutions, the pact was signed and sealed last week not at one more Conference but at the musty but sumptuous old Quai d'Orsay. A Red with the same surname as Catherine the Great's spectacular paramour, Soviet...
The earliest Anglo-Russian rapport occurred during the reigns of Queen Elizabeth and of Ivan the Terrible, and it originated in commerce. From then on, English ideas and institutions began to permeate Russia; their influence in the reign of Peter the Great, for example, is notable, and not even the...
This story of contemporary Sydney is not so much a novel as an interrelated series of portraits; the portraits are not so much human likenesses as translations into brilliant descriptive talk of different types of human problems. Her characters are mostly riff-raff but gloriously magnified and particularized into heroic...
Philip Johnson, whose province is interior decoration, described the "functional modern approach" of his art, which is now governed almost despotically by the principle of utility. That principle needed to be evoked after the clutteration of the mid-Victorian home. We shall never experience the dubious joy of accumulating useless...
The chief merit of Alexander Korda's historical researches (Henry VIII, Catherine the Great, Don Juan) is the quality of adult humor, with which he endows them. Like his previous works, The Scarlet Pimpernel is a lavish period piece, packed with all the paraphernalia of an epoch that the...