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...Boston, Historian Hugh Thomas (Lord Thomas of Swynnerton) said the world now is a "tessellated pavement without cement." He was quoting something Edmund Burke said about Charles Townshend, a brilliant but erratic 18th century British statesman. Not bad, but somewhat mandarin. The audience had to remember, or look up, tessellation, which is a mosaic of small pieces of marble, glass or tile. This age, thinks Lord Thomas, is a mosaic of fragments, with nothing to hold them together. Is it an age of brilliant incoherence? Yes. It is also an age of incoherent stupidity...
...Royal Academy elected her an associate member and one year later, Husband Harold. As she points out in Oil Paint and Grease Paint, the late Annie Louisa Swynnerton deserves the reputation Laura Knight has been given of being the first woman elected to the Academy since the 18th Century. In 1929 Laura Knight was made a Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire...
...Romantic Tales from the Punjab," by C. Swynnerton...
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