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Like the other boys at his school--a mixture of Winchester and Eton--he lives in constant fear of having his homosexual activities revealed. And once he is "found out," Bennett knows that the members of the "Twenty Two" will never accept him. As much as he'd like to participate in this world of ties and waistcoats, he comes to the wry conclusion that "Some people are better than others, just because of the way they make love...
...time Jimmy went to Eton, he devoted much time and thought to playing the horses. At 16, he invested (pounds)10 in a three-horse parlay and collected (pounds)8,000. He decided that Eton was no longer worthy of his time. He bought himself a car and headed for Oxford, where although not enrolled as a student, he learned about chemin de fer and girls. When the subject of a career eventually came up, Jimmy served a brief stint in the Royal Artillery. He later went to Paris and joined his older brother Teddy in a tiny pharmaceutical business...
During his dazzling years at Eton and Cambridge, nobody doubted that the very clever boy would build a very clever career. But at what? He was as interested in medieval Latin poetry and Peter Abelard as he was in math and the laws of probability. When he took the civil service exams that led to his first job in the India Office in 1906, his lowest score was in economics. Even after he returned to Cambridge as a don and took to editing the Economic Journal, he was most comfortable among the aesthetes of Bloomsbury. Philosopher Bertrand Russell once referred...
Some viewers are angry about the attempts to interrupt their free programs. Says Tom Walters, a dish dealer with Eton, Ga.-based International Satellite Systems: "You own anything which comes down in your yard, and you have a right to use it." But others say they are willing to pay cable programmers a fee so that they can continue enjoying their backyard cornucopia...
...decade after the Great War, the playing fields of Eton and Westminster were trod by a generation of upper-class traitors to the Empire: Guy Burgess, Kim Philby and the rest. In the 1980s, these homegrown spies have stoked a boomlet of plays, TV shows and films. Julian Mitchell's 1981 play, Another Country, is set in a public school very much like Eton and features a 17-year-old, Guy Bennett, very much like the young Guy Burgess. Prinked up in Oscar Wilde frippery, gaily mocking the prefects' hypocritical rites of passage, standing defiantly outside this class...