Word: cooperating
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Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. The final volume of Lady Diana's autobiography shows again her delightful ability to make real people sound like Waugh characters, a gift all the more impressive when one understands that "Duckling," for instance, is Winston Churchill, and "Wormwood" is Charles de Gaulle...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s says goodbye to her generation...
Trumpets from the Steep, by Diana Cooper. Lady Diana has the delightful ability to make real people seem like Waugh characters, but there is a touch of sadness to the third volume of her autobiography, in which the brightest of the Bright Young People of the '20s say goodbye to her generation...
...revived next week in a go-minute condensation), followed by such milestones as The Jazz Age and The Innocent Years (1900-14). For early next year, Hyatt & Co. have prepared a program on American music in the '305 and an examination of The Real West (Gary Cooper narrating) that should leave the average TV oater looking like whinny the pooh. And this Easter or next Project Twenty will complete its life of Christ, taking the story step by step through Tintoretto's Crucifixion and Mantegna's Ascension...
...picks up the receiver, while "Duckling" is Winston himself, and "Wormwood" is none other than General Charles de Gaulle.* "Duff," of course, is Lady Diana's husband, who died as Lord Norwich in 1954 but who, during the period of the book, was plain Mr. Alfred Duff Cooper, successively army lieutenant, Minister of Information, civilian defense chief in Southeast Asia, liaison man in North Africa and, finally, Ambassador to France, writing the Treaty of Dunkirk, and at the embassy piano listening to "Ernie" Bevin sing cockney ballads. It is by a thousand such little cinema frame snippets that Lady...