Word: strachey
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...taught him how to sail (on the lawn), Henry James, who had him to tea, and "Jack" Galsworthy. Now Garnett has moved into another part of his private forest of first names. There are among others, Aldous (Huxley), Maynard (Lord Keynes), Virginia (Woolf), Morgan (E. M. Forster), Lytton (Strachey) and Rupert (Brooke...
Britain has been made Freud-conscious by the championship of Dr. Jones, the masterly translations of James Strachey, the polemics of Partisan Edward Glover, and the fatal fascination-plus plot ideas -Freud held out to all fiction writers. Yet all of Great Britain (pop. 51 million) has half as many analysts as New York City. There are Englishmen who still like to quote Punch's burlesque "explanation" of Freud back in 1934: "Without psychoanalysis we should never know that when we think a thing the thing we think is not the thing we think we think but only...
...speech as Minister of Defense. When he calmly announced that the government was making plans in case of nuclear attack to evacuate 12 million persons, shouts of "Where to?" cannoned all over the Labor side of the House. "Areas of least concentration," replied Monckton lamely. Former War Secretary John Strachey dryly reminded him that his own ministry's pamphlet showed that "a bomb dropped on Liverpool would be lethal as far as the east coast...
...Treasury George Humphrey, Butler explained one of the biggest hurdles: politics. Recent polls had shown a startling increase in Labor popularity. If an election were held today, Labor would probably win. Though the Labor leadership have not committed themselves, vocal Labor irregulars like ex-Secretary of War John Strachey have been loudly insisting that a Labor government would re-impose currency controls "in a matter of days." If the Tory government made sterling convertible, speculators would rush to change their money into dollars before Labor won an election and blocked them. Britain dared not risk that, Butler argued...
...Lytton Strachey . . . looked like a caricature of Christ; a limp cadaverous creature, moving feebly, with lank long brown hair and the beginnings of a beard much paler in color, and spasmodic treble murmurs of a voice utterly weary and contemptuous. Obscene was the character written all over...