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Books: Cyril and his complexities Selina Hastings enjoys an exuberant life of Cyril Connolly, writer, critic and procrastinator
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Cyril Connolly: A Life
by Jeremy Lewis
Jonathan Cape, pounds 25, 653 pp
IT WAS Anthony Powell who posed the crucial question, "What was
the point of Cyril Connolly?" Connolly himself spent a lifetime
agonising over the answer: "At Eton with Orwell, at Oxford with
Waugh, / He was nobody after, and nothing before." What after all
did he have to show, except a long career reviewing books, or, as
he put it, the thankless task of drowning other people's kittens?
Cyril Connolly, a minor figure of his literary generation, was
none the less remarkable both as critic, a writer of clear and
elegant ...
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The beginnings of Moravian missionary photography in Labrador.
Magazine article from: International Bulletin of Missionary Research
; ...Count Zinzendorf's profound religious commitment was deepened by viewing a painting of the crucified Christ by Domenico Feti, exhibited in a church at Dusseldorf. Although rigorists in their religious commitment, Moravians have embraced...
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