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...only took the Jumbos two plays to get their own safety, as Frank Forster tackled Crimson halfback Bill Mahoney behind the goal line. Cohen then...
...Years of Gospel. Lekachman retells the major elements in the development of a genius: the patrician upbringing, the early triumphs at Eton and Cambridge, the cocksure rise in the British Treasury, the friendships with Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster, the prolific outpouring of books, each more imaginative and important than the last. The climax, of course, was The General Theory, published in 1936, which argued heretically that economic cycles could be tamed and unemployment and inflation defeated by conscious government manipulation of national budgets, taxes and interest rates. In sum: man could control his economic fate...
...Forster, The Longest Journey, A Passage to India...
...letters. Though he remarked that economists should be humble, like dentists, he enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death...
...courage, Dilke grimly continued the fight. During the next decade a committee established to investigate the case produced evidence which strongly suggests that Mrs. Crawford's story was a lie from beginning to end. In fact, says Jenkins, Mrs. Crawford had an affair with a certain Captain Forster, from whom she had contracted syphilis. Unable to continue her marriage without disclosing her condition, Mrs. Crawford cynically decided to get both Dilke and a divorce in one fell swoop...