praetorians
Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt, and their praetorians
used metaphorically here I assume
Burgess, Philby, Maclean, Blunt, and their praetorians
used metaphorically here I assume
the loggia or façade that they designed
always modish governance of private patronage and mass-media trivialization
can guess the meaning but never seen it used like this before
It is parlor-pink talk in the approved nineteen-thirties style.
The Marxist sentiments voiced in Blunt's art reviews and in his contribution to The Mind in Chains are banal. They constitute the widespread routine of anger of a middle-class generation caught up in the threefold context of Western economic deprivation, rising Fascism and Nazism, and what were b…