Word: isherwood
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Ernest Hemingway called her the "Empress of China." British novelist Christopher Isherwood found her "possessed of an almost terrifying charm and poise." Among those impressed by Madame Chiang Kai-shek's charms was the American politician Wendell Willkie, who lost the presidential race against Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1940 but hoped to get the Republican nomination to run again in 1944. Visiting China's wartime capital of Chongqing in 1942, Willkie disappeared from an evening reception?as did Madame Chiang, who had then been married to Chiang Kai-shek for 15 years. According to the privately printed memoirs...
...that he was discovered by Vogue and then whisked off to London and larger things. But it's at this very point, when he takes up the work that made him famous, that his book tapers off. What did he bring to it from his childhood in Isherwood's Berlin or his flight from Hitler's? He doesn...
...Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called On the Frontier, the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W.H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger--Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from a balcony...
...Schlesinger went to Cambridge University on a Henry Fellowship just as Chamberlain was disgracing himself at Munich. He met Harold Laski but argued with the radical political scientist about his soft views on the Soviet Union. At the opening of a play called "On the Frontier," the authors, Christopher Isherwood and W. H. Auden, sat directly in front of Schlesinger - Auden scribbling notes to Isherwood (which Isherwood could not read in the dark) and furiously smoking Camels, while John Maynard Keynes stared down impassively from a balcony...