Word: etonian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Partisan Aim. The latest old Etonian to call public attention to the soup stains on the old school tie is 24-year-old David Benedictus. Brought out in England last June to coincide with the date of the school's fanciest annual party (from which it takes its title), the book caused a small but predictable stir. Liberal reviewers used it to launch an impassioned appeal for school reform. Conservative critics, many of them older Etonians than the author, shrilly denounced him for sensationalism. They were offended by an incident in which a student sells his handsome younger brother...
...enshrined as one of the great ones in the long waxwork gallery of English comics, appears as an ambitious officer with a rich, newly acquired military vocabulary. In his own phrase he is "up to his arse in bumph" (i.e., a busy desk officer). An unconscious clown as an Etonian, an obtuse and thundering bore as a successful businessman, a disastrous figure of Freudian fun as a lover, Widmerpool, as Powell says in a hundred ways, is the sort of man this age was designed for. In Widmerpool is seen the force of Powell's art-a deadly bore...
Died. Frederick William Pethick-Lawrence, first Baron of Peaslake, 89, longtime wheelhorse of Britain's Labor Party, who, as Secretary of State for India, played a major role in the negotiations that ended the British raj; in London. A well-heeled, cause-addicted Etonian, Lord Pethick-Lawrence first won the public eye by adopting both his wife's name (Pethick) and her cause (female suffrage), went to jail and technically bankrupt as a result, scored his most memorable political victory in 1923 when he became M.P. for West Leicester by defeating the Liberal candidate, Winston Churchill...
...Doolittle. But a shout seems to be the limit of Miss Dunaway's acting capabilities, and she is less than arch, more that dull. As her original suitor, Jere Whiting is determinedly effeminate (he can shout, too); Robert Moulthrop, her eventual choice, must be a stout fellow, but his Etonian ways do not convince. The fourth one, William Gordy, Hypatia's brother, barks gruffy; he is not a little tedious...
...slightly daft and that imaginative children are plain off their rocker. In the midst of this Cork slum, screaming with malice, he lived among "Invisible Presences"-imaginary young aristocrats at British public schools about whom he read in penny weeklies of the sort that excited the wrath of Etonian George Orwell. Through these stories, barefoot Mick was initiated into the code of the young English gentleman. Naturally it got him into a lot of trouble-when he "owned up to" his own school crimes or refused to "tell on" others, he would get extra cane. But for the time being...