Word: tolland
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tterdämmerung. Some are embarrassed to death-mostly civilians. Lady Molly Jeavons' town house cops a packet; the hostess goes with it, and so does Priscilla Tolland. In fact, a head count shows that six previous survivors of the Powell epic are killed off in this novel. In Powell's war, only the rotters flourish-notably Kenneth Widmerpool, whose humorless egomania and bounderish one-upmanship have won him critical status as one of the great comic creations of modern English fiction. He is now on the make as a staff major, a virtuoso of bumf...
...Thackeray's Henry Esmond. The shooting war, which largely flows past him, interests Powell less than its effects on the worm-eaten aristocrats and upper-middle-class English men and women who inhabit his fictional world. Not a great deal happens. Nick's brother-in-law, Robert Tolland, is killed while serving in France with the Field Security Service. "Would he have made a lot of money in his export house trading with the Far East? Might he have married Flavia Wisebite? As in musical chairs, the piano stops suddenly, someone is left without a seat, petrified...
PAUL A. H. DE MACARTÉ Tolland, Conn...
...fellow and his close friend at school, is now under virtual house arrest as an alcoholic by his sister's former governess. Widmer-pool, a great comic creation who represents Business in Powell's mind, has soared to the skirts of Mrs. Simpson's "set." The Tolland family, whose head is Lord Warminster, illustrates the vast confusion of the British ruling class at the time. ("I haven't been in Spain for years," says Lady Warminster. "I liked the women better than the men. Of course they all have, English nannies.") Depression, the approach...
...Music of Time? It may confidently be predicted that deaths in the cast of characters will be more frequent. They are getting no younger, and besides, they cannot all come through the war with a whole skin. Will we learn anything about Nick's marriage to Isobel Tolland except that she had a miscarriage? How will "Chips" Lovell get on with Priscilla Tolland? The addicted reader can hardly wait. Meanwhile it would seem to be a safe bet that Narrator Nick Jenkins will be commissioned, like Author Powell, in a posh regiment (Powell was an officer, first...