Word: manor
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Ambler writes novels of, um, "international intrigue"--geographical thrillers, you might say. He evades repetitiveness because his genre can be made to have limitless possibilities. You can only murder so many duchesses in so many English manor houses, but Ambler has the whole world to spy in. And his leftist view of society (which is not incorruptible--more of that later) spurs him to take great pains letting the social conditions and political situations of his settings inform the way the plot works itself...
...novel takes place about twenty years from now, in a large English manor where four English aristocrats (one with a fear of losing his teeth), three dissolute Americans (including a nymphomaniac and a Timothy Leary type), one whore and one dwarf have gathered for a weekend of debauchery. Given the strange passions of some, sexual ambivalence of others, and a wide range of futuristic drugs, it is not surprising that Amis is able to generate more than two hundred pages of sordid situations...
Ottoline was described in a number of novels, and rarely kindly. The most famous of them is Women in Love; Lawrence had gotten to know the Morrells through Bertrand Russell, and had visited the manor where Ottoline held court a number of times. She was horrified when she read the description of Hermione, "a tall, slow, reluctant woman...who drifted forward as if scarcely conscious, her long blanched face lifted up, not to see the world." Hermoine is presented as a creature of the intellect, whose intense passion is only superficial. Like Ottoline, she dresses in bright, untidy flowing clothes...
...wanted equal access and we gave it to 'em," chortles Jack Reardon '60, director of Admissions as he dresses for a squash game with L. Fred Jewett '57, dean of admissions. "Yeah," says Jewett, snapping a towel at Reardon, "look at it this way: Radcliffe's loss is Pine Manor's gain, if you know what I mean...
...began building when he decided to stay on in England after shooting Lolita there in 1961. He found it "helpful not to be constantly exposed to the fear and anxiety that prevail in the film world." He lives and does all pre-and post-production work in a rambling manor house defended by two wooden walls and furnished in early nondescript. He rarely ventures forth even to London, less than an hour away. He prefers that the world-in controllable quantities-be brought to him via telex, telephone, television. All the books and movies this omnivorous reader-viewer requires...