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...there was little rejoicing among the whites. For them, Mugabe's victory marked the end of nine decades of privilege and dominion, dating back to the arrival of Cecil Rhodes and the British pioneers in the 1890s. Said a Salisbury secretary: "How can we accept what we have fought against for so long?" Some white Rhodesians talked bitterly of "gapping it"-their Rugby-derived term for emigrating...
NONFICTION: Fin-de-Siecle Vienna, Carl E. Schorske ∙ My Many Years, Arthur Rubinstein ∙ Self Portrait with Friends: The Selected Diaries of Cecil Beaton, edited by Richard Buckle ∙ Show People, Kenneth Tynan ∙ The Falcon and the Snowman, Robert Lindsey ∙ The Right Stuff, Tom Wolfe ∙ White House Years, Henry Kissinger
SELF PORTRAIT WITH FRIENDS THE SELECTED DIARIES OF CECIL BEATON Edited by Richard Buckle Times Books; 435 pages...
...some day it'll keep you," said that great American philosopher Mae West. But it is the Eng lish who have a unique talent for scribbling to themselves. To the long list that includes Samuel Pepys, James Boswell and Virginia Woolf must now be added the name of Cecil Beaton, who died last month at 76. For half a century he roamed the halls of fashion and fame with a folding Kodak and an acidulous...
...early student of the rich, Cecil was following the adventures of dukes and duchesses in the society magazines while other middle-class boys were reading about cowboys and Indians. Theirs was a fantasy world he longed for, and after leaving Cambridge, he found his entree - the camera. His lushly romantic portraits, with just a touch of surrealism, be came fashionable on both sides of the Atlantic; eventually he became the favor ite photographer of the British royal family. Country houses opened their doors to him, and Mayfair hostesses vied for his company. He had entered, in short, into snob heaven...