Word: osbert
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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England's Sacheverell Sitwell is as sensitive to the beauties of the past as any other man alive. Like his famous brother and sister, Osbert and Edith, he is at least Edwardian in his attitudes, positively baroque in his tastes. His famous travel books and his less famous poetry exude a distaste for contemporary living, and few writers can bolster their eccentricities with a wider knowledge of music, books and architecture. Now, with 61 years and as many books behind him", he moves into an area where he is about as much at home as a caveman with...
...hexagonal glasses. Readers of Lord Beaverbrook's Daily Express could spot him at a glance: he was "the loud American." For the past nine years he has swaggered regularly through the frontpage, one-column panel drawn by one of England's most popular cartoonists: urbane, grandly mustached Osbert Lancaster, London clubman, stage designer, critic of architecture (Pillar to Post...
Coates is one of the gems in this glittering, endearing ensemble of eccentric Englishmen. Dame Edith Sitwell collected her eccentrics nearly 30 years ago, when she and her brothers Osbert and Sacheverell were daring moderns, and their father, Sir George Sitwell-not included in this book -was setting one of the most glorious examples of eccentricity in English history (he was an aristocrat with an almost Renaissance-like variety of interests, including the invention of a musical tooth-brush). English Eccentrics, now revised and expanded, is still as fresh, invigorating and delightful as on the day it was written...
...impressive past, in which the mystical names of James Russell Lowell, Bliss Perry, Ellery Sedgwick, Thomas Bailey Aldrich, and William Dean Howells figure as editors, the issue goes on to new material by past contributors. Frost, Marquand, Hemingway, Thurber, Berenson, Morison, Isak Dinesen, President Conant, Jung, Slichter, Niebuhr, Osbert and Edith Sitwell, Auden, Wilder, McGinley, R. P. Lister, and the late Max Beerbohm march with deserved pomp and circumstance through the table of contents...
...authors, however, are so novel, and in reality Slichter and Frost are reworking old themes, and doing their jobs well. Osbert Sitwell keeps up his barrage of family anecdotes; Bernard Berenson analyzes another family topic--Bernard Berenson; Beerbohm revives the Victorians; and Marquand traces his genealogy and that of New England. All is as it was--fluent, powerful in spots, and not disturbing...