Search Details

Word: recollectec (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1981-1981
Sort By: most recent first (reverse)


Usage:

...this most seemly of chronicles begins, Powell, 28, is about to marry Violet Pakenham, 22. An opportunity, surely, for a passing brushfire of emotion, recollectec in tranquillity? Not at all. Whatever might be hot or sweet is buried in the cool shade of 13 pages devoted to Violet's family tree. Fervor, by Powell's standards is reserved for Siamese cats and the young couple's cook, a Mrs. Clara Warville, who in a passage as heartfelt as any in the book, is recalled as "an admirable exponent of the art at its simple English best...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Muted Memoir FACES IN MY TIME by Anthony Powell | 3/9/1981 | See Source »

| 1 |