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Oxford Historian A.J.P. Taylor, writing in the New Statesman and Nation, added his historian's pennyworth to a lively London topic: "Most Englishmen do not like women. They have normal sexual desires; they need women as housekeepers; but they do not enjoy feminine society except at bed and board. Hence all our characteristic institutions-clubs, public houses, boarding schools, colleges -though not homosexual, still encourage homosexuality...
Masters made good in and out of combat. His descriptions of camp and barracks life often seem trivial in detail, but in the end they tell what it was that kept generations of Englishmen in a service that had little to offer but comradeship, pride in outfit and a sense of duty. Masters does not pretty up military service, and he does not try to pretty up India. Yet he obviously loved them both and manages to convey the quality of his. affection. His story closes in 1939 when, at 25, he was still a lieutenant in an army that...
Officers and Gentlemen, by Evelyn Waugh, a satire on Englishmen in World War II, was very funny when it roasted spivs and fake heroes, but Tory Waugh was really a sad man when he wrote this fine book. It was about the impulses that make men rise to moral bigness, the disillusionment which comes in the discovery that sacrifices cannot do much to change other humans' natures. It was almost a dirge on the softening of England's national character...
Composer Jean Sibelius is a hero to all Finns, most Englishmen and many Americans. His music is heavy enough to sound profound?something like the work of a rural and obstinate Brahms. It seemed revolutionary in the 1900s, daring in the teens, peculiar in the '20s, old-fashioned in the '30s. Since then it has suffered a kind of honorable obsolescence. Sibelius' last major work was published in 1926, when he was 61. Most of today's critics, finding they have nothing new to say about the music, simply muse about those tough, craggy Sibelius characteristics that remind people...
...common with many Englishmen, I tend subconsciously to regard much American journalism as flamboyant and not quite in "good taste." It is with considerable pleasure that I am constrained to congratulate you on your Nov. 7 article. By comparison with much of the unashamed bad taste that has been written on the subject in the British press, it is a very fine and carefully unemotional statement of a position which has encouraged the display of just that character. B. J. N. EDWARDS