Word: lavinia
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...manor house whose living room has a copper floor and a ceiling made of floor boards. He runs two miles home to lunch to keep in shape for mountain climbing. Says one baffled Rosenthal executive: "I guess he is really a British eccentric." Rosenthal s fourth wife Lavinia, a London socialite, is no less...
When Sweden's Count Bernadotte came to dinner one evening during one of the frequent remodelings of the Rosenthal manor. Lavinia set the table on a high scaffold. The guests sat precariously eight feet above the floor-eating, naturally, off Rosenthal china...
...book with a huge 70th birthday party for Mrs. Morland, the dithery novelist who, readers justifiably suspected, more than slightly resembled Author Thirkell. After the last bit of cake has been eaten, there comes a final passage whose treacle might have been spooned by the master herself: "'Darling Lavinia,' said Lord Mellings, 'Are you sure you really want to marry me?' To which foolish question he neither expected nor received anything but a silent answer. And so they lingered in Golden Valley for a short, precious time, while from faraway Barchester came the chime of bells...
Wonderland Park, just outside Boston, was all atwitter last week. Above the splashing of the fountains could be heard the squeals and coos of the visitors. "Peek under the rhododendrons, Lavinia, and see if they're using peat moss," whispered one. Burbled another: "I can never really face up to spring until there are pussy willows in the house...
...butlered, bachelored, dowagered, nurseried inhabitants, 70-year-old Ivy Compton-Burnett creates her own cosmos. Her scene is, like the Greek stage, mercilessly compact and periodically given to disquieting revelations and messengered melodrama. The Mighty and Their Fall concerns an enslaving, egocentric widower, Ninian, and his devoted daughter, Lavinia. Ninian decides to remarry. Lavinia becomes emotionally unhinged, a letter is mysteriously withheld, and a family will turns up with a deathbed injunction scrawled on it. By such classic Compton-Burnett devices, not only are the characters' outer fortunes made or marred, but their inner natures are thrust into...