The Fine Art of Doing Nothing
Acton, Harold, The Independent (London, England)
THE DEATH of Sir Harold Acton has captured the imagination as the passing of the age of the aesthete. Yet as always there are survivors and two fellow aesthetes stepped forward to pay tribute to him in obituaries, written in good time, at the pace at which aesthetes tackle such things. The novelist Anthony Powell and the writer Alan Pryce-Jones recalled a lost age and gave ample evidence of having studied Sir Harold closely, recounting anecdotes of his career while assessing his place in this century, with detail that might have caused Sir Harold some reflective discomfort.
The aesthete is defined as the "professed appreciator of the beautiful" but he has come to …
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Article title: The Fine Art of Doing Nothing.
Contributors: Acton, Harold - Author.
Newspaper title: The Independent (London, England).
Publication date: March 1, 1994.
Page number: Not available.
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