Word: clubman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...them similar, are variations on a basic polygonal plan, look out on courts and open passageways that Saarinen feels are "not unlike a small Italian hill-town street." The interiors, done in stone, oak and plaster, will be designed to suggest the scholar's study rather than the clubman's rumpus room...
Rather than complement the intellectual life of the campus, the club system competes with it. Siren-like, it woos and charms even the best students to the beguiling pleasures of good clubmanship. And the standards for the good clubman are not the standards for the good student...
...county of Somerset, 100 miles from his office at Punch, that venerable and sometimes humorous magazine, where he functions as a slyly discursive book reviewer. "We [the British] are a very peculiar, very odd people," says Powell, looking down at his subject matter in the manner of the legendary clubman who liked to sit in the window of the Carlton on dismal days in order to have the pleasure of "seeing it rain on the damned people...
...Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
...year-old Ian Fleming served in Naval Intelligence during World War II, is now foreign manager of the proper Sunday Times. He is married to the former Lady Rothermere, whose press-lord husband named him as corespondent in a divorce suit in 1952. At Goldeneye, his luxurious Jamaica residence, Clubman Fleming has been host to his convalescing friend, Sir Anthony Eden. His critics find his shockers all the more unspeakable because he is so much a member of The Establishment.* Yet Fleming is no Spillane. His closest U.S. opposite number, Raymond (The Big Sleep) Chandler calls him "masterly." And Novelist...