High life
New York Orthodox Easter Sunday came late in May this year, and I spent it at an old friend’s Fifth…
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New York With the Karamazovian hangover now only a weekly occurrence, the healthy life rules supreme. Well, most of the…
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New York What follows has been covered ad nauseam, but I wonder why people were surprised at the planned breakaway…
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New York The high life has gone with the wind because of you know what. The last time I went…
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New York Ha, ha! What London turned down, the Bagel accepted with alacrity, namely the poor little Greek boy. And…
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It takes a very good writer to produce prose that provokes an emotional response in a reader, even when it…
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Chelsea/Gstaad Oh, to be in England! But let’s start at the beginning. I challenge any reader to claim they are…
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Gstaad I have never experienced such a long, continuous blizzard, and I’ve been coming here for 63 years. The ski…
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Gstaad Some of you may have noticed that I have not commented at all about the ongoing soap opera and…
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Gstaad I was very sad to read of Rupert Hambro’s death. I didn’t know him well, but first met him…
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Gstaad That’s all we needed in a great year: copyright has expired on The Great Gatsby. Some Fitzgerald wannabe has…
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Gstaad The sun has returned, the snow is so-so, and exercise has replaced everything, including romance. What a way to…
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Gstaad Good old Helvetia. I’m quitting her for the rainy but pleasant land of England. The cows are beginning to…
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Gstaad During these dark, endless periods of lockdown, let’s take a trip down memory lane to a time when we…
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Gstaad Imagine a beautiful, sexy woman, an Ava Gardner or a Lily James, with a wart on the end of…
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Gstaad Martha Gellhorn was a long-legged blonde American writer and journalist who became Papa Hemingway’s third and penultimate wife. She…
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Gstaad This might surprise a few people, but I was very friendly with our late co-proprietor Sir David Barclay, a…
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Gstaad Lord Belhaven and Stenton, a wonderful man and the quintessential English gentleman, died at 93 just before the end…
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Gstaad Chekhovian boredom ruled supreme, but the loss of my luggage brought instant relief. Anger beats boredom by a mile,…
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New York There are times, living in this here dump, when I doubt if anyone’s heard of the word magnanimity.…
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New York Here we go again, the annual holiest of holies is upon us, although to this oldie last Christmas…
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Harbour Island, Bahamas A singer named Shawn Mendes recently announced to millions of his fans: ‘The truth is, it’s so…
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New York I received a letter from a long-time Spectatorreader, James Hackett, enquiring about books I am reading. It is…
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New York There are times, living in this here dump, when I doubt if anyone’s heard of the word magnanimity.…
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New York Who was it that first coined the expression ‘It ain’t over until the fat lady sings’? The great…
