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In Cyril Connolly's Circle
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FRIENDS OF PROMISE
Cyril Connolly
and the World of Horizon
By Michael Shelden
Harper & Row. 254 pp. $24.95
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974) is the laureate of the disappointed.
Ostensibly a literary critic, he was in fact a representative
mid-century man-in love with the wrong people, moody, overweight,
worried about his health, obsessed with money, hopelessly addicted to
living beyond his means.
At Eton young Cyril won scholarships and honors; art historian
Kenneth Clark remembered him as "the most gifted undergraduate of his
generation." But as Connolly himself observed over and over ...
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Delineating decadence: the influence of J.-K. Huysmans on Arthur Symons.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Arthur Symons, an early devotee of the...in and day-out. When Symons first read A Rebours cannot...Curious Book." (6) Or maybe Symons first became curious about...During the spring of 1890, Arthur Symons made the first of...
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Songs of a Wayfarer.1 When lights go rolling.1 Hope the Hornblower.1 Sea Fever.1,2,3 Marigold.1 5 Poems by Thomas Hardy.1 3 Songs.1 We'll to the woods no more.1,2,3 Tryst.1 During music.1 Songs Sacred and Profane.1 5 16th-Century Poems.1 Blow out you bugles.1 If there were dreams.1 I have 12 oxen.1 Spring Sorrow.1 The bells of San Marie.1 The Journey.1 The merry month of May.1 Vagabond.1 When I am dead.1 Santa Chiara.1 Great Things.1 If we must part.1 Tutto e sciolto.1 The Heart's Desire.2 The sacred flame.2 Remember.2 Hawthorne Time.2 The East Riding.2 Love is a sickness.2 The Land of Lost Content.2 My true love hath my heart.2 The Trellis.2 The Three Ravens.3 Bed in Summer.3 Mother and Child.3 Earth's Call.3 3 Songs by Arthur Symons.3 What art thou thinking of?3 3 Songs by Thomas Hardy.3 Remember2
Magazine article from: Fanfare
; ...3 Mother and Child.3 Earth's Call.3 3 Songs by Arthur Symons.3 What art thou thinking of?3 3 Songs by Thomas...with Two Songs (1928). The sensual "Tryst," to Arthur Symons's poetry, has the lover waiting through a drowsy...
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The Week starts here...; For tackling the garden, making headline news and celebrities' dads. By Mitchell Symons.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...the housekeeper wrestling with the plantlife, I occasionally point out a weed and encourage her from the deck-chair." - Arthur Marshall. 4. "You knew you were middle-aged when your hormones turned to horticulture." - Germaine Greer. 5. "You...
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The week starts here...; For knights, African Queens, unsung cricket heroes, tennis winners and big swingers. By Mitchell Symons.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...stars. Talented in soccer, tennis and athletics, he carried the flag for Australia in the 1956 Melbourne Olympics. 9. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, was a keen amateur. The pinnacle of his career was when he bowled the great WG Grace...
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Time to draw a line, learn lessons and move on KEN SYMON ON THE ENRON SHENANIGANS
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...media coverage and Skilling's 'poster boy' status, the board seems to have been reluctant to ask the hard questions." Arthur Andersen was also to blame. As the book says: "While the misuse of accounting permitted by compliant auditors did not cause...
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The week starts here...; For tennis champs, stars under arrest, and chip lovers. By Mitchell Symons.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Mirror (London, England)
; ...Round 1937. 5. Fred Perry 1936. 6. Kitty Godfree 1926. 7. Dorothea Lambert Chambers 1914. 8. Ethel Larcombe 1912. 9. Arthur W Gore 1909. 10. Dora Boothby 1909. ARRESTING BEHAVIOUR On Tuesday five years ago, Hugh Grant was arrested for engaging...
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John Connolly's 'no panic' strategy gives Deloitte edge over rivals With other financial firms embroiled in scandal, Ken Symon asks Deloitte UK boss how he avoided costly legal claims
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...McAndrew, a member of the 16- strong financial advisory team which joined Ernst & Young wholesale in 2002 after the demise of Arthur Andersen. The other three signings are from the Edinburgh office of Dundee-headquartered business and IT consultancy Vision...
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RBS: TARGET IN SIGHT As the Royal Bank of Scotland homes in on Dutch finance house ABN Amro, it wins one legal battle . . .but there promises to be more trouble from the lawyers in the weeks ahead. Ken Symon reports
Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald
; ...immediate dismissal from TCI, the hedge fund that has been pushing for major change at ABN Amro. The call came in a letter to Arthur Martinez, chairman of ABN Amro's supervisory board, from TCI managing partner Chris Hohn. He wrote: "We believe that...
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Flawed lives.
Magazine article from: Nineteenth-Century Prose
; Karl Beckson. Arthur Symons: A Life. Oxford...Karl Beckson's biography of Arthur Symons will surely take its place...also tempting to say that Symon's fragmented life begets...since his publication of Symons's Memoirs in 1977. But...toll. This is the problem: Symon's life falls ...
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"My love is a force that will force you to care": subversive sexuality in Mathilde Blind's dramatic monologues.
Magazine article from: Victorian Poetry
; ...dramas' now published" (p. 531). Arthur Symons, who four years later would feature...this important insight, however, Symons ends his review by retreating to...predominantly dramatic rather than lyric, Symons ostensible insight into Blind's...
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