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...could study the beautiful workmanship on a short swingy white Carolina Herrera dress with black lace inserts. Or you could sit front row at Oscar de La Renta and alternately marvel at Roger Federer seated nearby and a crisp white shift dress breezing down the runway on the model Jacquetta Wheeler...
This bifocal approach to the U.S. is hardly new: J.B. Priestley and his wife Jacquetta Hawkes did it in Journey Down a Rainbow 30 years ago. Nor is the Nicolson credulity a blessing: Adam describes a movie executive as "one dissertation short of a PhD at Harvard . . . Sometimes -- that was the crucial word -- he didn't think the hassle was worth the money." Generally, however, the men breeze through their missions with the jaunty patrician charm of the charmed. The cross fire of their letters -- a burst from Nigel, a counterburst from Adam -- is the British equivalent of the nautical...
...JACQUETTA HAWK...
Historians have enough trouble with these questions. Laymen are usually bewildered by synoptic accounts of dynasties and empires. For both professionals and the purely curious, Archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes (The World of the Past} now provides a brilliant series of answers- a chart of all the ancients whose past is our prologue. Along the way, she illuminates a great many contemporary geopolitical attitudes...
Soon after left-wing British Author J. B. Priestley and his archaeologist wife Jacquetta arrived in Australia last month for a ban-the-bomb peace conference, they decided that they did not like being Down Under at all. About to leave Australia last week, J.B. was still smarting about the reception they had received: "We were cold-shouldered and treated as if we were lepers." Why? "Political cowardice." Details: "I don't like the political atmosphere of Australia. It doesn't smell right to me. I am not a Communist. My wife is not a Communist. We have...