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...afternoon began with cricket on the playing fields of Eton, but what everyone had come for was the historic "procession of boats," which lasted on into evening under the red glare of rockets. As boat after boat passed the Royal Enclosure where the Duke of Gloucester (an Old Etonian) sat with his royal nieces, the schoolboy crews stood with glistening, uplifted oars in salute. Nobody spilled, and Princess Elizabeth sent her congratulations to the Captain of the Boats...
...Lord Chamberlain's office, headed by Old Etonian Lord Clarendon, objected to the last two lines, insisted on an innocuous substitution...
...elegance in English letters, as his friend George Orwell is the latest fashion in common sense. Connolly's touch of Irish divination and curiosity has given him a greater range than other amateurs of the 18th Century manner. His published pieces yield the vivid image of an Old Etonian still alive and kicking amid the European rubble, somberly turning the pages of psychiatric journals, reaching for the odes of Horace, and composing, with a groan, clever paragraphs to keep his modern anguish under classic control...
Evergood, who looks like a rosy-cheeked stockbroker played by Charles Laughton, has definite ideas about modern painting. He is against "the Morticists, the Gagaists, the Neo-Impressivists, the Neo-Depressivists, the Neophytes, the Spherists, the Circumventors and the Distractionists." U.S.-born, but an Old Etonian, who lives and paints in Manhattan's Greenwich Village, he calls his own style "social painting." Says he: "Goya's is no less social than mine. And even if you like Goya better, you will have to concede . . . that my work is no nearer to ... politics than...
Government documents, said the Etonian editors, are rank with verbiage, due to "a popular misconception that to use long words is a sign of an expensive education. . . . We prefer a homely remark such as 'You've got some cheek, Bert' to 'Herbert, you are suffering from an inverted inferiority complex...