Word: lytton
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...eccentric," he recalls, "because I was not homosexual." In the years since, he has been astonished that the widespread practice has hardly ever been mentioned in print. Nor did he himself have anything to say on the subject until the publication of a new biography of Cambridge Biographer Lytton Strachey gave him an opportunity. In a review of the book in the current Encounter, he gives high-level English homosexuality between the wars its first startling airing...
Treatments & Trips. This year's most noticeable category in nonfiction is the literary biography, notably Andrew Turnbull's Thomas Wolfe and Carlos Baker's Ernest Hemingway (Papa is also the subject of Irwin Blacker's novel, Standing on a Drum). Hart Crane, Stephen Crane, Lytton Strachey, Richard Wright, Nikos Kazantzakis, Nathanael West, André Gide and Samuel Taylor Coleridge also get full-length treatment; and there will be an autobiography from André Malraux, a second volume of Bertrand Russell memories, and a third of Harold Nicolson diaries...
Russell had come to the university in the hope of meeting the most brilliant of his contemporaries. It was some time before he found out that he already had done so: they were his immediate circle of friends, including the three Trevel-yans, poet, historian and scholar; Lytton Strachey, J. M. Keynes, and the philosopher G. M. Moore...
Disguised Blessing. The scarcity of mortgage money is greatest in Southern California, housing's No. 1 market. Lytton Financial Corp. has fired 70 employees and, like several other big S & Ls in the Los Angeles area, stopped accepting new loan applications. That could prove a blessing in disguise, because the 14-county area suffers from a glut of 80,000 unsold new homes and vacant apartments-a year's supply. As a consequence, while California S & Ls have a manageable 5% of their assets tied up in such money losers as delinquent loans and foreclosed property...
Cantos, Thirty Cantos. Marcel Proust, Du Cote de Chez Swann. Raymond Radiguet, Le Diable au Corps. Arthur Rimbaud, Les Illuminations. Antoine de Saint-Exupery, Vol de Nuit. Jean-Paul Sartre, La Nausee. Edith Sitwell, Collected Poems. Stephen Spender, Ruins and Visions. Wallace Stevens, Harmonium. Lytton Strachey, Eminent Victorians. J. M. Synge, The Playboy of the Western