Word: clubmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...cartoon in a London paper some months ago showed two Colonel Blimp characters chatting at their London club. ''Have you noticed,'' asked one, ''that no one's died since the Times stopped publishing?'' Clubmen and other notables can start expiring again, confident that their passing will not go unnoticed. The Times of London-founded in 1785, known fondly as ''the Thunderer'' for its once imperious editorials, and for years the bulletin board of the British Establishment-will reappear in mid-November along with its sister Sunday Times...
These are far from romantic queries. Indeed, their impact seems to have reached enemy shores. In its notorious pronouncement of 1972, the Cassandras of the Club of Rome warned that the world was consuming and polluting itself to death. The author of this suicide pact, said the clubmen, was economic growth. But last month the club decided that the vice was versa: growth, managed selectively, could close the gap between wealthy and deprived nations...
...outcome of Jenny Rastall's suit merely confirms what Snow readers were told a dozen novels ago: power and justice are two different things. Despite his cool eye, Snow cannot really be hard on those who are, after all, his fellow clubmen. An overachiever-physicist and parliamentary secretary as well as prolific novelist-Lord Snow cracked the Establishment at about the time the Establishment cracked. More softy than satirist, the clerk's son makes a case for the not-so-happy few even as he chronicles their ineptitude, their folly in a world they never made. These...
...these tales share a kindred urbanity, as might be expected from a longtime contributor of fiction and criticism to The New Yorker. (Gill's present post there is Broadway theater critic.) Many of the characters-clubmen, wealthy matrons, genteel spinsters -could well be the literary grandchildren of Edith Wharton's characters. Gill's narrative voice evokes the kind of man who might be found in one of his own fictional clubs or parlors-a wryly observant uncle or older brother who has moved in wide enough circles to be able to recount a homosexual killing...
...minutes it looked like the Brown golf team wouldn't find the country club at Brookline and when they arrived they still couldn't find it, as the Harvard clubmen drubbed them, 404-431, yesterday...