Word: dufferin
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...Amos admits, when the distortions of life far exceed those of art. Evelyn Waugh's scapegrace Basil Seal (Black Mischief) is based in part on an aristocrat who might have arrived from the set of early Monty Python. As a houseguest, Basil Sheridan Hamilton-Temple-Blackwood, Fourth Marquess of Dufferin and Ava, liked to borrow a pound from the butler and later tip him with it. The title character of V.S. Naipaul's A House for Mr. Biswas is a version of the author's father, a West Indian journalist. Seepersad Naipaul publicly labeled the rite of goat sacrifice superstitious...
...friends." The trouble was that no one could quite believe that Truman's 540 most intimate friends could be composed of the likes of Averell Harriman and Sammy Davis Jr., Walter Lippmann and Frankie Sinatra, William Baldwin, James Baldwin, Tallulah Bankhead and the Marquis and Marchioness of Dufferin and Ava. Yet the fact is that he possesses an almost endless entrée into the world of the great and the glamorous; as he modestly puts it: "I have an awful lot of friends all over the world...
Manitoba (pop. 958,000) is the only relatively "have not" province in the West, though it too has greatly progressed in recent years. In Premier Dufferin Roblin, 49, it has an able Tory whom many Conservatives consider a good bet for the leadership of the national party when John Diefenbaker eventually retires. Manitoba also has the prairie's most diversified industry and a newly beckoning north into the bargain...
...touch with the country to lead the Conservative Party. What kept him in command was his almost messianic popularity in the western prairie provinces and the lack of a serious challenger. Conservatives in the industrialized eastern provinces would much rather see Manitoba's able Premier Dufferin Roblin or Nova Scotia's Premier Robert Stanfield in charge of the party...
...Indian "lu."† saw a second English generation of her class face death (on Dday, "two Mannerses"), and for a time, in "dung-covered boots," fed swill to pigs on a Sussex farm. Her bits on the horrors of life under British austerity are done with sharp irony. Lady Dufferin's goldfinch was "frozen to death in her bedroom. A remarkable thing to happen to a British bird." Then there were the disgruntled mothers from Britain's bombed slums quartered in the Stately Homes of England. Said one: "I can stand anything but the trees. The trees...