Word: lytton
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Died. Victoria Mary Sackville-West, 70, genteel English authoress, a lanky noblewoman whose needlepoint prose and aloof mien made her a leading light in the Bloomsbury Group of Lytton Strachey, John Maynard Keynes and Virginia Woolf (who portrayed her as the fantastic heroine of Orlando) and who herself, though home-educated in her family's 365-room castle, penned a tapestry of 33 books, from biographies (Daughter of France) to novels (No Signposts in the Sea) and a history of nursery rhymes; in Sissinghurst Castle, Kent, England...
Hughdee's representative in the sale is Lytton Gibson, a tax attorney notable for wearing rubber bands to hold up his socks. The buyers are led by a developer named Sheldon Magazine. Says Gibson: "Nothing but a bunch of longhairs and eggheads are causing all the trouble." Says Magazine: "What do they think we are building-a couple of garages or something?" Says old Hughdee, who keeps protesting his belief in free enterprise and the fact that a man should be allowed to sell to the highest bidder: "It's extraordinary, their making this fuss...
...wrote Lytton Strachey, "in which all the outlines were tremendous and all the details sordid." Certainly, in Victorian England, island swelled into Empire, man's origins retreated from Adam to ape, man's progress advanced to antitoxins and turbines. But certainly, too, there was a precipitous drop from Disraeli to pestilent drains or from Darwin to shivering streetwalkers. Characteristically, it was an age of gaslight, which lighted the dark with a baleful glare, but produced furtive, disquieting shadows...
Rosenberg does not attempt a catalogue of all the appearances that Jews make in English literature. He concentrates on a few novelists--Maria Edgeworth, Walter Scott, Charles Dickens, Anthony Trollope, Edward Bulwer-Lytton, George Eliot, and George DuMaurier--with extended glances at a few playwrights--Marlowe, Shakespeare and Cumberland. He supplements his close, detailed examination of a sensibly limited number of texts with some attention to medieval plays and ballads, many minor writers, and extra-literary phenomena such as social and political changes...
Arriving in Washington, Kennedy kept on the move. He watched Ike's farewell speech on TV, struggled into his formal clothes and hurried over to Sister Jean's house for a dinner dance. Then, after dropping in at a party tossed by West Coast Financier Bert Lytton, Kennedy took off again, in a chartered DC-6, for New York and a peaceful night away from the social demands of the capital. He got his final fittings for his inauguration outfit (cutaway, grey waistcoat, striped pants, topper), ordered a few business suits at $225 apiece, got a checkup from...