The Resource In the fifties, Peter Vansittart
In the fifties, Peter Vansittart
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- The fifties are often dismissed as a featureless interlude but here Peter Vansittart, distinguished novelist and anthologist, rediscovers their forgotten yet distinct flavour, recalling the funny and bizarre, the sad, the momentous, sometimes the atrocious. Uninterested in fashion and fleeting reputations, he relishes the inescapable figures of Churchill and Lord Goddard, the generous but vain Shaw, the public-spirited Leonard Woolf. He sees Donald Wolfit sneezing, Alec Guinness nodding, John Masefield surviving
- He teaches at a school to the left of A. S. Neill and Bertrand Russell, a breeding-ground of mirth and inconsequence. At the newly founded Institute of Contemporary Art he witnesses T. S. Eliot being rebuked in person for anti-Semitism and Colin Wilson lambasting gentility; and, elsewhere, Elias Canetti talking nonsense to a waitress. In Pooterish style, he advises a fat stranger (J. B. Priestley) to try his hand at writing, and tells a pleasant woman that C. P. Snow is no good, without realizing they are engaged. He gets tipped half a crown by Randolph Churchill, admires Camus, Pasternak and Isaiah Berlin, meets Arnold Toynbee and A. J. Ayer, and is grateful to Evelyn Waugh. But all these take their place alongside coffee-bar grotesques, a painted tramp on Hampstead Heath, everyday commonplaces of London life, and living survivors from a forgotten age
- Pinpointing the decade's characteristic mixture of optimism and nostalgia, he also offers a unique perception of its literary and artistic landscape
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates ;
- Label
- In the fifties
- Title
- In the fifties
- Statement of responsibility
- Peter Vansittart
- Language
- eng
- Summary
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- The fifties are often dismissed as a featureless interlude but here Peter Vansittart, distinguished novelist and anthologist, rediscovers their forgotten yet distinct flavour, recalling the funny and bizarre, the sad, the momentous, sometimes the atrocious. Uninterested in fashion and fleeting reputations, he relishes the inescapable figures of Churchill and Lord Goddard, the generous but vain Shaw, the public-spirited Leonard Woolf. He sees Donald Wolfit sneezing, Alec Guinness nodding, John Masefield surviving
- He teaches at a school to the left of A. S. Neill and Bertrand Russell, a breeding-ground of mirth and inconsequence. At the newly founded Institute of Contemporary Art he witnesses T. S. Eliot being rebuked in person for anti-Semitism and Colin Wilson lambasting gentility; and, elsewhere, Elias Canetti talking nonsense to a waitress. In Pooterish style, he advises a fat stranger (J. B. Priestley) to try his hand at writing, and tells a pleasant woman that C. P. Snow is no good, without realizing they are engaged. He gets tipped half a crown by Randolph Churchill, admires Camus, Pasternak and Isaiah Berlin, meets Arnold Toynbee and A. J. Ayer, and is grateful to Evelyn Waugh. But all these take their place alongside coffee-bar grotesques, a painted tramp on Hampstead Heath, everyday commonplaces of London life, and living survivors from a forgotten age
- Pinpointing the decade's characteristic mixture of optimism and nostalgia, he also offers a unique perception of its literary and artistic landscape
- Biography type
- autobiography
- Cataloging source
- UKM
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vansittart, Peter
- Dewey number
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- 823/.914
- B
- Illustrations
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- illustrations
- portraits
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
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- PR6072.A76
- DA566.4
- LC item number
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- Z465 1995
- .V3 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Vansittart, Peter
- Novelists, English
- England
- Novelists, English
- England
- Editors
- Label
- In the fifties, Peter Vansittart
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates ;
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035663991
- Label
- In the fifties, Peter Vansittart
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index
- Extent
- 1 online resource (vi, 266 pages, [8] pages of plates ;
- Form of item
- online
- Other physical details
- illustrations, portraits)
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)1035663991
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