Word: edwardianism
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...best performance, and the best comic part in the whole play, belongs to George Turner, the stuffed shorted, Edwardian butler. Turner's carefully measured pace and diction add a rare ludicrosity to the otherwise shabby proceedings. Joan Wet more, as the young man's sister, brings a facile smugness to some of the play's better lines...
Most important was the elevation of Harold Macmillan to Minister of Defense, replacing Lord Alexander. A tough-minded Scotsman who dresses with Edwardian elegance, Macmillan, 60, is a member of the publishing Macmillan family. After Eton and Oxford, he served as a Grenadier and was wounded three times in World War I. In World War II he was Churchill's resident minister at Allied headquarters in North Africa, where he became both a valued adviser and a friend of Dwight Eisenhower. A Tory reformer, he has been an outstandingly successful Minister of Housing, getting houses built at the surprising...
MUSEUM PIECES, by William Plomer (282 pp.; Noonday; $3.50), is an expertly-fashioned literary paradox: a sad comedy that turns into an amusing tragedy. It is about a couple of leftovers from Edwardian England-Toby d'Arfey, a brilliant, sardonic dilettante who was born in 1900 and develops into a stepchild of the century, and his twice-widowed mother, Mrs. Mountfaucon, a sweet and summery ineffectual thing who is abused by her son and adores it. Toby's career is marked by his successive failures as a speculator, opera singer, painter, milliner and playwright. During World...
Critic Tynan has made sure that no one could ever say that about him. Pale and lanky ("He has the sort of face you would expect to see reflected in a spoon," says one acquaintance), he often dresses in flowered waistcoats and velvet-lapeled jackets with turned-back Edwardian cuffs, and a mink necktie. "It looks like a raccoon at my jugular," says Tynan. "People ask me, 'Who's your friend?' " At home, with his two-year-old daughter and his American-born wife Elaine Dundy, he sometimes wears leopard-skin pants...
Stranded far from town, Stephen Coryat, a writer, accepts a gracious offer to spend the night at the House of Gair, a thrifty Scottish version of Manderley, of Rebecca fame. His host turns out to be an Edwardian dandy of 77 named Hazeldon Crome, who had himself written a novel in the '90s called A Quiet Day in Old Cockaigne. Crome charms Stephen completely with his milk & whisky pick-me-ups, his billiard game, and his nostalgic reveries on the days of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley...