Word: london
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...principal settings are those favorite corners of Greeneland, grimy London and a sunnier Third World capital, both pregnant with menace. The story lurches, sometimes comically, toward a classic Greene ending, which combines plausible irony with amazing grace. And the Captain is a typical Greene figure: a man of several names and many shadowy occupations and absences. His enemies are, of course, corrupt officialdom and bourgeois smugness. His story is told by Victor, the boy he says he won at backgammon, or maybe chess -- the tale shifts with the passing years. Along with the wraithlike woman who is the Captain...
...play is based on a stock premise. The members of the artistic and unconventional Bliss family have each invited one guest to their country home outside London for the weekend. The Blisses--Judith, David, Simon and Sorel--have romantic designs on their respective guests. As the weekend progresses the guests leave the Blisses who invited them and become blissfully involved with other Blisses...
Amnesty International, the London-based human rights group, said last month the number of people imprisoned in Soviet labor camps, psychiatric hospitals or exiled for their political beliefs numbered about 200, compared to 10,000 a few years...
During his undergraduate years, Burns, who grew up in London, studied general history at Cambridge University. He then remained at Cambridge for several years, serving as a fellow in architectural history at King's College and studying there for a graduate degree simultaneously...
Before coming to Harvard, Burns served as a professor at the Courtauld Institute of the University of London, which combines a fine arts department with an art museum. "It's like the Fogg in the Harvard system," he says...