Word: edwardianism
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...more significant works, which he performed in defense of Christianity against ideological dangers. In a long career (one of his first assignments as a young diplomat was to help represent the Vatican at Queen Victoria's funeral) he saw these dangers of the soul veer from Edwardian complacency to existentialist despair. Perhaps his most important efforts were in these areas: ¶ COMMUNISM. When Pius XII was born, the Communists had nowhere won political power; at the time of his death, 52,552,000 Catholics were living in Communist-ruled countries. Again and again, he ringingly condemned Communism...
Less than a year ago, the attitude of most Tory politicians to their leader, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, was respectful but restrained: a fine man in the House of Commons, they said, but hardly a man to appeal to the people. He looked too sedately Edwardian; people did not know what to make of him. Then, partly as a result of his U.S. visit and the widespread rebroadcast of a humanizing TV appearance with Ed Murrow, the British public-and Tory leaders too-began to see their chief in a new light...
...fancy $5,000, but used the finished canvas in the Graphic, made 600,000 color reproductions and sold them profitably across the Empire. A print of the portrait, known as Cherry Ripe because Edie was perched atop two sacks of cherries, became a sentimental adornment in every Victorian and Edwardian nursery...
Wodehouse laments the fact that "the Edwardian butler . . . has joined the Great Auk, Mah Jong and the snows of yesterday in limbo." Says he: "The change in conditions in English life has made it rather difficult for my kind of writing. Comedy does so depend on prosperity." Once a professional drama critic (for Vanity Fair), in recent years he has habitually left any play after the first act, no matter how good or bad. Rather sadly he recalls that England was once full of the dotty people he wrote about. "But I suppose a couple of wars have made...
...Harold Macmillan himself, the trip to Paris was one more indication of a change in his own personal fortunes. In his first year in office, after inheriting Sir Anthony Eden's debacle at Suez, he was regarded by many as a stopgap Prime Minister, grabbed out of the Edwardian era. His debonair manner annoyed as many as it pleased. Three months ago, scarcely a Tory could be found who looked upon his party's future with anything but dread. Insiders respected Macmillan's parliamentary skill, but the image did not get over to the country...