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...hero of Brideshead Revisited is Charles Ryder, an architectural painter. When young Charles became an Oxford undergraduate in the golden age (circa 1921), life still flowed unruffled in Oxford...
Insane Orderliness. The most arresting figure in this tranquil scene was young Lord Sebastian Flyte. Hero Ryder, who had ground-floor rooms, met Sebastian somewhat unpropitiously one night. Amid the hubbub of strayed revellers he heard one voice say distinctly: "D'you know I feel most unaccountably unwell. I must leave you a minute." "And there appeared at my window," says Ryder, who narrates the novel in the first person, "the face I knew to be Sebastian's-but not as I had formerly seen it, alive and alight with gaiety; he looked at me for a moment...
...Ryder's dignified cousin Jasper, who was in his fourth year, was bitter. "I expected you," said he, coldly fixing his eyes on a human skull resting in a bowl of roses, "to make some mistakes your first year. We all do. I got in with some thoroughly objectionable . . . men who ran a mission to hop-pickers in the long vac. But you, my dear Charles . . . have gone straight hook, line and sinker, into the very worst set in the University. . . . There's that chap Sebastian Flyte you seem inseparable from. . . . [He] looks odd to me. ... Of course...
Portrait of Albert Pinkham Ryder (see cut), a recollection of the 19th-Century U.S. master whom Hartley knew and revered. Of a Ryder painting he once said: ". . . the power that was in it shook the rafters of my being...
More recently the Japanese-Americans have seen action at San Luce and Pastina. Last week their versatility was further recognized. They had pitched in with the Engineers to help rebuild the port of Leghorn. Said their commander, Major General Charles W. Ryder: they're the best troops in the Division...