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...failed to find much true artistic classicism. Instead, without the usual nightmarish litter to distract them, critics and gallerygoers were spotting some old Dali shortcomings more clearly than ever. The London Times dismissed Dali's recent work as "trivial and irreverent . . . singularly banal." In the Daily Express, Critic Osbert Lancaster applied the most devastating label of all: Victorian. In his "laborious accuracy and painstaking attention to detail," said Lancaster, Dali reminded him of some "minor academician" of Victoria's Royal Academy...
...lecture, given under the auspices of the Morris Gray Poetry Fund, was delivered last year by Edith and Sir Osbert Sitwell. Robert Frost also gave it a few years...
Architecturally speaking, Frank Lloyd Wright and John Ruskin are as uneasy a pair as a modern canvas roof supported by a Victorian marble arch. Yet Osbert Lancaster, a onetime editor of Britain's Architectural Review, thinks that Wright's Modern Functionalism and Ruskin's Gothic Revival movement have a striking similarity. Last Week, in a talk over the BBC's polysyllabic Third Program, Critic Lancaster charged that both schools rode their horses too hard...
Parliamentary corridors buzzed with rumors that Nye Bevan meant to make good lis threat to resign from the cabinet. Most Tories scoffed; from their opposition benches they needled the Minister of Labor-"the main advocate of waste and extravagance of all forms." Cracked Conservative M.P. Osbert Peake: "The Chancellor . . . has succeeded where his predecessors all failed; and even if the Chancellor has not yet succeeded in deflating our swollen economy, he has well and ruly disinflated the pouter pigeon of the Treasury dovecote...
Back in London, "fearfully tired and worn out" from their poetry-reading tour of the U.S., Sir Osbert and Edith Sitwell compared notes on audiences at home and abroad. Said Sir Osbert: "American audiences are more inquiring, more responsive, and not so tired as the English." Sister Edith agreed: "American response is quicker. Some of our meetings were like revivalist's meetings...