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...should not display their emotions in public, and most specifically that they should never shed tears, was enshrined during the 19th century in the Spartan code of English public schools, which popularized the doctrine of the stiff upper lip, and was articulated by many writers, from early Victorian Charles Kingsley ("Men must work, and women must weep") to late Victorian "Mr. Dooley" ("Among men . . . wet eye manes dhry heart...
...POOR, unenlightened souls who still believe that the best expression of the English language is that style set by such medievalists as D.H. Lawrence and Kingsley Amis, prepare yourselves for a somewhat astonishing revelation. That is, if enlightenment is still a viable concept in this hyper-relativistic world. But, first, a digression; yes, a subversive...
...oldest art history departments in America, Fine Arts was left short-handed when a large number of professors retired. The department lost five major figures over the course of three years, including Kingsley Professor of Fine Arts James S. Ackerman and Rockefeller Professor of Oriental Art John M. Rosenfield...
MEMOIRS by Kingsley Amis...
Reading this collection of essays and sketches is a bit like listening to a bristly British clubman, over whiskey-and-sodas, who has been cursed with total recall. Kingsley Amis was the archetypal Angry Young Man, as well as a very funny one, when he wrote Lucky Jim back in 1954. Amis can still be funny, when in the mood, but he is also still out of sorts: Memoirs seems to have been compiled as much to settle old scores as to relive the past...