Word: trevelyan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...painting "a mass of soapsuds and whitewash." Turner protested: "I wonder what they think the sea is like," and the modern eye can readily see the inner turmoil and thunder. DEVIS. What stands out in the arr represented in the Mellon Collection is the quality that Historian G. M. Trevelyan called "the fullness of life . . . Perhaps no set of men and women since the world began enjoyed so many different sides of life, with so much zest, as the English upper classes at this period." Painters like Arthur Devis -one of the comparative unknowns brought to prominence by the Mellon...
...lights. Government funds of ?8,000,000 sterling (more than half the rent of all Irish land) were advanced to feed the starving. Successive British Cabinets consisted of high-principled men of good will-Peel, the best of the lot, Lord John Russell, who succeeded him, and Sir Charles Trevelyan at the Treasury, who worried about money and the Irish in that order...
...Merit lacks in tradition-having been founded a mere 60 years ago by King Edward VII-it makes up in exclusiveness: only 24 living Britons at any one time are entitled to write O.M. after their names. Filling two vacancies left by the deaths of Historian G. M. Trevelyan and Portraitist Augustus John, Queen Elizabeth named goateed Architect Sir Basil Spence, 55, rebuilder of the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, and Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey deHavilland, 80, whose company turned out swarms of Mosquito fighter-bombers during World War II. to join the distinguished company of such men as Poet...
Died. George Macaulay Trevelyan, 86, Britain's most eminent historian, great-nephew of Lord Macaulay, famed 19th century political satirist, a Cambridge professor who published his first work at 23, was best known for his monumental English Social History, which for some 20 years has been a standard text on both sides of the Atlantic; in Cambridge. An outspoken, impatient man with deep-set eyes and beetling brows, Trevelyan was a zealous defender of the green splendor of England's countryside, warning his fellow Britons to preserve its beauties, or "the future of our race will be brutish...
...premiere fully satisfies all the hopes that theatre news from Britain has excited in followers of avant-grade drama. It is one of those plays about which people disagree, disagree even as to what it is about. I would suggest that perhaps Simpson intends to supplement the venerable Bede, Trevelyan, Thornton Wilder, and The Times, as historian of Church, England, mankind, and the times. Early in the play (and in a manner reminiscent of some of Our Town's devices) he calls our attention to the large meaning he wants his play to have (and the correspondingly high standards...