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Arcadia with British Accent. "During the 18th century, for the first and only time in British history, an interest in and knowledge of the arts became fashionable," writes the present Duke of Wellington, for the exhibition's catalogue. The English gentry, he points out, enthusiastically studied the architectural plans Lord Burlington published of the Italian villas by Palladio, proceeded to plan their parks and redesign their stately homes, hanging the walls with Spitalfields silk and decorating them with the furniture of Chippendale. To furnish them with art, English artists labored prodigious hours at their easels...
THOMAS BERTHOLD Wellington...
...Wellington, Washington, Clive. all appear here not as figures out of a distant past, but as men whose acts and words are still part of a living heritage...
...just like Waterloo!" shouted a gleeful spectator when the good news, 7 to 4 for Britain, was posted on the Scoreboard. For golfers, it was at least that. It took Wellington only four days to beat Napoleon. It had taken Britain 24 years to whip the United States for the Ryder...
Beneath statues of the Duke of Wellington, William Pitt the Younger and of himself, 82-year-old Sir Winston Churchill, wearing white tie and tails, the blue ribbon of the Garter across his chest, looked and sounded the proud and unyielding Englishman as he spoke out last week in London's 500-year-old Guildhall. His audience was 550 American and British lawyers and their wives, his theme was that "justice knows no frontiers," and his warning was that "justice is not being achieved" in the U.N. Assembly...