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- catalog abstract "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.".
- catalog contributor b7799612.
- catalog coverage "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog coverage "England Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog created "1995.".
- catalog date "1995".
- catalog date "1995.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1995.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog description "Includes bibliographical references (p. 251-254) and index.".
- catalog description "Pinpointing the decade's characteristic mixture of optimism and nostalgia, he also offers a unique perception of its literary and artistic landscape.".
- catalog description "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.".
- catalog extent "vi, 266 p., [8] p. of plates ;".
- catalog identifier "0719553008 :".
- catalog issued "1995".
- catalog issued "1995.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "London : J. Murray,".
- catalog spatial "England Intellectual life 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "England Social life and customs 20th century.".
- catalog spatial "England.".
- catalog spatial "Great Britain".
- catalog subject "823/.914 B 21".
- catalog subject "Editors Great Britain Biography.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English 20th century Biography.".
- catalog subject "Novelists, English Homes and haunts England.".
- catalog subject "PR6072.A76 Z465 1995".
- catalog subject "Vansittart, Peter Homes and haunts England.".
- catalog title "In the fifties / Peter Vansittart.".
- catalog type "Biography. fast".
- catalog type "text".