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DIED. The Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, 96, American-born widow of England's ninth Duke of Marlborough; in Northampton, England. Friend of Degas, Rilke and Proust-who praised her "magnificence and charm"-the Duchess presided over Blenheim Palace until she and her husband separated in 1933. For the past four decades, she had lived reclusively in a farmhouse with dozens of spaniels...
...lives, have attracted their share of hyperbole. One New York critic likened them to both Rubens' Marie de Medici cycle in the Louvre and Mantegna's frescoes in the Ducal Palace in Mantua - which may be the silliest indulgence since Truman Capote last compared himself to Marcel Proust. However, they are certainly among the most beautiful declamations in the language of the brush to have been uttered anywhere in the past 20 years...
...MARCEL PROUST...
...Greil Marcus in his article on the Beatles eagerly concurs with the judgement that "The closest Western Civilization has come to unity since the Congress of Vienna in 1815 was the week the 'Sgt. Pepper' album was released"; or when Robert Christgau compares Chuck Berry's lyrics to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past...
...retired to his Wiltshire estate with Clarissa, his second wife (he had in 1950 divorced his first wife, Beatrice, by whom he had two children: Simon, who was killed in World War II, and Nicholas, who is now a merchant banker). He raised purebred Herefords, dabbled with watercolors, reread Proust and Joyce and wrote his circumspect but stylish memoirs; the last of four volumes, titled Another World: 1897-1917, was published last spring. Through a television series in which he recounted his life and career, Eden became a new presence to a generation of Britons who knew none...