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...back almost to Piltdown man, but one of Britain's most iridescent contemporary writers (England Reclaimed, Escape with Me). Left Hand, Right Hand ("the lines of the left hand are incised unalterably at birth . . . those of the right hand are modified by one's actions") is a neo-Proustian, witty remembrance of things (mainly amusing) from the proud Sitwellian past. It is also a latter-day Book of Snobs, in which converge "all [the] diverse rays of lineage" that form that "mixture of blood which in England constitutes the aristocratic tradition...
When Jacques Offenbach's operetta La Belle Hélène was first performed in Paris in the days of Empress Eugenie. Prince Metternich took one horrified gander at its neo-Homeric ribaldry, primly led his wife to the nearest exit. But La Belle Hélène outlived Metternich. Last week, in a new version called Helen Goes to Troy, a lavish $140,000 Manhattan production that seemed likely to become Broadway's latest smash-hit musical, it was still going strong...
...escape from escapism. But what of the sturdy independent realists who are trying to escape from escapism from escapism?" And, touching on a bit of British antiquity, he remarks: "Holborn Town Hall, where Cecil Rhodes was born, is a good example of Phibbs in his later manner. It is neo-Romanesque rather than post-Palladian, and the gargoyle above the gutter which runs along the sculleries is a very fine example of deep groining in the manner of Boutoflor, who also was responsible for the gadgets on the fagade of the old hand-laundry in Red Lion-square...
...Republican cabinet. Of the old gang, Benito Mussolini had few left. Most influential of his fellow puppets: tall, peasant-tough Marshal Rodolfo Graziani, chief organizer of the Fascist Republican Army which helps the Wehrmacht curb restive northern Italy; dapper, sensual Lawyer Alessandro Pavolini, secretary and chief organizer of the neo-Fascist Party; arrogant, church-baiting Roberto Farinacci, the boss of Cremona Province...
...became known as "divisionism." This meant painting in countless little strokes of pure colors rather than mixing colors on the palette. (The better known term "pointillism" more clearly indicates the application of color by myriads of points.) Thus, in the later paintings of Seurat and his followers-dubbed the "neo-impressionists"-the colors are not blended on the canvas but, by illusion, in the retina of the observer...