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Anthony Blunt: his lives.(Column)
Disbelief is the instinctive reaction to the double life of Anthony Blunt. One of the sons of the quite conventional chaplain of the embassy church in Paris. Attentive to his mother. Marlborough and Cambridge. Frequent long spells in France and Germany, fluent in the languages. Art historian and homosexual. Surveyor of the Queen's Pictures, a natural for the Queen Mother's circle. This is close to a novelist's parody of a certain sort of highbrow career. And then betrayer of all that reassuring English stuff in favor of Stalin, foulest of murderers. The man, the Establishment he adorned, the country in which he was so eminent, dissolve into unreality. It seems simply too ...
- Being blunt about Blunt.(Anthony Blunt, British art historian, Soviet spy)
- Magazine article from: New Criterion Schwartz, Stephen November 1, 2005 700+ words
...British art historian and Soviet spy Anthony Blunt (1907-1983), one of the infamous...rubric "Being Blunt: Exploring Anthony Blunt's Legacy as a Scholar and Director...Andrew and Vasili Mitrokhin, Anthony Blunt was recruited into the Soviet...
- Decades later, memoir reveals Anthony Blunt's regret about spying for Soviets;...
- Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune JOHN F BURNS July 24, 2009 700+ words
...Decades later, memoir reveals Anthony Blunt's regret about spying for Soviets...word typewritten memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of Britain's most renowned...word typewritten memoir in which Anthony Blunt, one of Britain's most renowned...
- Unattributable; British anti-heroes.('Anthony Blunt: His Lives')(Review)
- Magazine article from: The Economist (US) November 24, 2001 700+ words
...Picture puzzler PEOPLE who knew Anthony Blunt remember his wit, his courtesy...dominating and completely sincere. "Anthony Blunt: His Lives" is too long, and...wish for--at this remove. Anthony Blunt: His Lives. By Miranda Carter...
- Anthony Blunt: His Lives. (Capsule Reviews). (book review)
- Magazine article from: Book Teachout, Terry March 1, 2002 700+ words
Anthony Blunt: His Lives MIRANDA CARTER Farrar, Straus & Giroux 590 pages Anthony Blunt--formerly Sir Anthony Blunt--was a vicar's son who grew up to become a world-renowned...
- Anthony Blunt: His Lives. (Briefs).(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: The Gay & Lesbian Review Worldwide Mitzel, John May 1, 2003 700+ words
...educated, gay as a handbag, and a Soviet spy, Anthony Blunt rose high in the art world, even becoming...in the popular imagination--and big, bad Blunt fills the slot nicely. In Anthony Blunt: His Lives, Miranda Carter traces Blunt...
- Memoir reveals regret of Soviet spy Anthony Blunt
- News wire article from: AP Online July 22, 2009 700+ words
...idealism and ended in bitter regret. Anthony Blunt _ English gentleman, art adviser...the biggest mistake of my life." Blunt wrote of his remorse in a 30,000...not be made public for 25 years. Blunt was the infamous "fourth man" in...
- 'The Fourth Man'; Russian spy Sir Anthony Blunt's diary released.(News)
- Newspaper article from: Daily News (South Africa) July 24, 2009 700+ words
...memoir by the notorious traitor Sir Anthony Blunt - released this week, 26 years after...centre of the Cambridge spy ring. Blunt was known as the "Fourth Man...anonymously in 1984 - the year after Blunt's death at the age of 75 - on condition...
- Weekend: Books: Eternal enigma of the fourth man; Anthony Blunt -- His Lives....
- Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England) December 8, 2001 700+ words
...else to explain the strange case of Anthony Blunt? Reviled at the time of his exposure...man' of the Cambridge spy ring, Blunt had, it is clear from this absorbing...and the end of the war, so while Blunt may have been extraordinarily prolific...
