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TURBULENCE AND REVELATIONS: A Biography of Norman Douglas; Further Memoirs of Sir Robert Bruce Lockhart; A ..

... be expected to appreciate the finer points in the character of D. H. Lawrence. Not, for that matter, that Lawrence was a Socialist, but the point would have quickly been taken by Douglas with that sharp bark of his, which he used instead of a smile. He ...

Published: Saturday 23 July 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1791 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

A POET'S CHRONICLE

... sitting duck. He has blue-black hair, thin s (inclined to a faintly self-mocking ,ile and a scar over one eye. He is lsh. A Socialist, and by claim a Man of People, he lives luxuriously in Chester :uare, in an interior carrying much rmilion, with a shadowy-eyed ...

Published: Wednesday 26 October 1955
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1118 | Page: 39 | Tags: Review 

ECONOMIC PROPHETS: From Adam Smith to Keynes

... . Then there were John Stuart Mill, Fourier, Saint-Simon and Robert Owen, who provided the basic theorising for libera' Socialists, and Karl Marx who, within the confines of the British Museum, hammered out, in his ungainly English, a gospel for Communism ...

Published: Saturday 17 December 1955
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 868 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

A WOMAN OF GREAT BRILLIANCE

... remains so. Her diaries, full and revealing as they are, give an admirable picture of the woman as well as the inspired Socialist, and make unforgettable reading. Personal journals are apt to be candid, but BEATRICE WEBB'S DIARIES 1924-1932 (Long mans ...

Published: Saturday 05 May 1956
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1662 | Page: 42 | Tags: Review 

BEST FROTH GUARANTEED

... left to enjoy their marvellous climate in their own possibly corrupt but contented way, or forced to progress according to Socialist theory. But as satire the episode is quite lifeless. Its real purpose is all too plainly to introduce a tell-tale trinket ...

Published: Wednesday 09 May 1956
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 864 | Page: 30 | Tags: Review 

A DIARY OF THE DREYFUS CASE: Maurice Paléologue's Secret Diary; a Work of Literary Criticism; Biography and ..

... constitute a kind of latter-day Montagu and Capulet situation: one headed by a shell-backed Tory and the other by a Socialist, and a female Socialist at that. As always Mr. Blake writes of a scene so familiar to him with an evocative turn of phrase and there ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1556 | Page: 36 | Tags: Review 

DEBBERY, DESCRIPTION AND DETECTION

... would escape from politics with his new-found love. Whether he will drop that hat, or be pushed further by his University socialist friends whose own careers range from grey eminence to television personality is the point. Skeyne's ride towards power gives ...

Published: Wednesday 05 June 1957
Newspaper: The Sketch
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1072 | Page: 46 | Tags: Review 

TWO ASPECTS OF FRANCE

... their lifts work Why do they cling to each cuiuii_y until inty navt, earned its hatred Why do they have parties like the Socialist- Monarchists, the Party of the Non-Parties, and the Independent Inde pendents But this isn't primarily, of course, a book ...

Published: Saturday 20 July 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1481 | Page: 38 | Tags: Review 

ENERGY AND HUMOUR: The Lives of Bessie Braddock, M.P., and P. G. Wodehouse; General Kennedy's War Narrative: a ..

... for her: the word is doubt. For Mrs. Braddock, M.P., is a fighter, a whole-time (which means twenty-four hours a day) Socialist, a solid whirlwind of energy and a woman whose watchword is: Do something about it-- now! Her biography, by Miss Millie ...

Published: Saturday 16 November 1957
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 1724 | Page: 32 | Tags: Review 

LABOUR'S FIRST GARTER

... in that House. It remains surprising to ne-to learn from VISCOUNT ADDISON, by R. J. linney (Odhams. 25s.), of a reluctant Socialist peer weeping for joy at the offer of the Garter. The Monarchy is nearly every Briton's pride and ly. Its baubles, in rewards ...

Published: Saturday 15 November 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 327 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

OCTOGENARIAN HARVEST

... terms b„lh Morley and Haldane, and in the campaigns uilawing war and for social betterment, he worked lesser Liberal or Socialist lights, among whom Arthur Ponsonby and Masterman. His estimate [sincerity and importance of the former in further- bose causes ...

Published: Saturday 13 December 1958
Newspaper: The Sphere
County: London, England
Type: Article | Words: 268 | Page: 37 | Tags: Review 

It muffs the point--but in ermine

... the pigs in the model piggeries of the ducal estate. Among the guests is one who does not belong, an Arctic explorer with socialistic views which are thought to be pretty well anarchic. He has been invited for his celebrity value, but his business in the ...

Published: Wednesday 18 November 1959
Newspaper: The Tatler
County: London, England
Type: Illustrated | Words: 966 | Page: 48 | Tags: Review