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This week, partially retired and 62, he was tolling again. His latest book, Crisis in Education (Whittlesey House; $3), rang the changes on U.S. culture as Bell has seen it in a lifetime of observation. Whether readers agree with all of it or not, the book is unmistakably what Author...
As every British schoolboy knows, famed Lloyd's of London began 260 years ago in Edward Lloyd's coffeehouse, a gathering place of City insurance men. It grew into the world's most potent body of insurance underwriters, still heralds ship disasters by tolling its doleful Lutine...
De la Mare has made two trips to the U.S., bringing back impressions of train travel that might give Americans a shock of recognition-"and the dread tolling of the engine's bell-surely, apart from that monster's prehistoric trumpetings, the saddest sound in Christendom-as one...
Waugh himself now regards Brideshead as a failure, a task beyond his powers. But readers were perhaps more right than the critics. The book has an elegiac beauty, like a bell tolling in a solitary church, where no one comes.
The Hour. Next day, across the Tiber, the white-clad Pope stood on a balcony beneath the brilliant spring sun. Below him lay the immense Piazza di San Pietro and, in its encircling colonnades, a multitude of more than 350,000 people, who overflowed into the adjoining streets and lined...