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...such luminaries as Novelists Virginia Woolf and E.M. Forster. Those gatherings sharpened his Renaissance restlessness. For most of his life Keynes was simultaneously a don, a diplomat and a highly successful currency speculator. As his stature grew, his sexuality shifted. In 1925 Keynes wed the beautiful Russian ballerina Lydia Lopokova. Their marriage endured for the rest of his life. So full were his days on earth that Keynes was able to recall only one regret shortly before his 1946 death: he was sorry, he said, not to have drunk more champagne...
...like dentists, he enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk...
Economists sang: one evening H. E. Brooks, a good pianist who is also a mem ber of the British delegation, sat down in the lounge and rippled out The Blue Danube, favorite tune of Lord & Lady Keynes (the former ballet dancer Lydia Lopokova). The peer and the peeress sang the words for the delegates near them.' Money vanished: while delegates up stairs in the Mt. Washington Hotel tried to conjure up world money, downstairs in a little bar (with a small orchestra and drinks at $1 a throw), Cardini the Magician made money disappear in his long fingers...
Today at 58, he is still knife-witted, but illness and study have stooped his shoulders, given him the gentle manner of Mr. Chips. Off the job, his chief interest is the ballet. In 1925 he married a Russian ballerina, Lydia Lopokova. An art collector, a member of the potent Bloomsbury group, he is one of Britain's top-ranking intellectuals and business pundits (as chairman of a life insurance company, National Mutual). But to the Government he remained an outsider, like Churchill, until the failures of World War II forced Tories and Labor alike to adopt (in part...
John Maynard Keynes, author of The Economic Consequences of the Peace, famed economist, husband of onetime Russian dancer, Lydia Lopokova...