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CLASSICAL LANDSCAPE WITH FIGURES (224 pp.) - Osbert Lancaster - Houghton Mifflin ($4).
"My criteria," says 40-year-old Artist Osbert Lancaster, the urbanely acid political cartoonist of London's Daily Express, "remain firmly Anglo-Saxon . . . [My] standards of judgment are always those of an Anglican graduate of Oxford with a taste for architecture, turned cartoonist, approaching middle age and living in...
In 1944 Lancaster packed his criteria and went off to Greece, where the British government had assigned him to the Athens embassy as first secretary. After 18 months he returned to London with his standards intact and a sheaf of sketches of what he had seen. The result is a...
Some of his crispest observations are leveled at the political nature of the Greek people. Writes Lancaster: "In a country where everyone from the shoeshine boy ... to the cotton millionaire . . . regards himself, quite rightly, as uncommon and unique, the coming of the century of the common man is likely to...
Politics, Lancaster found, is a Greek passion rather than an onerous civic burden, and politicians "enjoy a regard which . . . can today be claimed solely by the more popular American film stars." Occasionally, the passion leads to refinements probably not dreamed of in Marshall Plan philosophy. At an orchestra rehearsal, "the...