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...Satyricon of Petronius. A bawdy belly laugh at Nero's Rome delivered by the worldliest Roman of them all and translated with unexpurgated wit by Classicist William Arrowsmith...
...they have learned first to understand men-and to know what a woman must contend with in her particular time and society. Author Louis Kronenberger, TIME'S theater critic and an authority on 18th century Britain, knows that Sarah, Duchess of Marlborough, was one of the toughest, tetchiest, worldliest women of her time-but also that the time itself was one of treachery and double-dealing, an age in which England was "almost plagued with brilliance, and swollen with ambition." It was the era of Swift, Defoe, Newton, Wren, Pope -but it was equally an era of savage religious...
...drawing-room comedy, The Day After Tomorrow is anemic but agreeable. In its British way it manages to seem rather distinguished even when it is out at elbows. It has a nice languid urbanity, a pleasant suggestion of wit; and Melville Cooper is the suavest of performers playing the worldliest of peers. What does serious harm to the play is not its tenuous gaiety but its interminable romance. This not only makes for labored playwriting, but is never really in the true Lonsdale manner. Never was such real insouciance elbowed by such phony scruples; and never, for that matter...
...John, Richard's successor,* whom she had secretly called to her aid. Two years later, as John let her continental lands slip through his fingers, Eleanor quietly died. She lies at Fontevrault, between Henry and Richard. The effigy on the tomb of the greatest and worldliest woman of her time shows a figure peacefully perusing a book-which, as one of her apologists said, need not be regarded as a missal...
...Volume III of a five-volume autobiography. He writes with the assurance that, whatever may happen to English aristocracy, the cadences of his prose are not likely to perish sooner than those of Walter Savage Landor or Sir Thomas Browne. Great Morning is a tribute from the worldliest of the artistic Sitwells to the most Arcadian period that any Englishman can remember: the last years of the peace that ended in August...