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Much has been learned about the technique since the pioneering days of Steptoe and Edwards. When the two Englishmen first started out, they assumed that the entire process must be carried out at breakneck speed: harvesting the egg the minute it is ripe and immediately adding the sperm. This was quite a challenge, given that the collaborators spent most of their time 155 miles apart, with Edwards teaching physiology at Cambridge and Steptoe practicing obstetrics in the northwestern mill town of Oldham. Sometimes, when one of Steptoe's patients was about to ovulate, the doctor would have to summon...
Last winter in Bangalore, India, a pair of Englishmen stood peering through camera lenses. Two more Westerners squinting into viewfinders - nothing new to India. But these were no tourists out for holiday views of the East. One was Sir David Lean, director of Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago, shooting his first film in 14 years, an adaptation of E.M. Forster's A Pas sage to India. A few yards away was Lord Snowdon, the photographer who expelled posture and plumage from celebrity portraits, arching for shots of the cast and crew...
Ordinary Americans and Englishmen and Canadians and others, now in late middle age, will come as well. They will wander over the pastoral killing ground. They will search in the cemetery at Colleville-sur-Mer for the graves of friends they fought beside. They will think of themselves singing as they set off from England, "Glory, glory, what a hell of a way to die..." They will remember exactly the spot where they were pinned down by German machine guns, or where a shell blast sent a truck pinwheeling. They will go up again to Pointe du Hoc and shake...
...genre of the patter song, Sir Noël had no peer. Because he was a performer first, he made certain that his most complex lyrics could be delivered with ease (upon hearing Coward do Mad Dogs and Englishmen, Porter said that it was the first time he had ever heard a song delivered in one breath). Coward's broken rhythms uncannily reflect modern speech, and his rhymes are unpredictable ("The police had to send a squad car/ When Daddy got fried on vodka"). And many of his topics have actually grown more pertinent with age: "Mother requires...
...distinct contrast to this edgy placement of Englishmen on Irish soil (a juxtaposition which comes up repeatedly in Trevor, and specifically in his latest novel, Fools of Fortune); a trilogy of stories entitled Matilda's England is a sublime, melancholic pattern of a woman's reminiscences of a life, of the eras of a country house, of tennis parties and unfulfilled relationships. Here is the retreat into the past, the solace of remembering old pleasures, the ghostly hovering of the past over present dissatisfaction that colors so much of Trevor's work...