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Flicker … whirr … Move it along, Granddad, you’re getting in
the way of The Scene! The London Scene, that is! From Soho to
Notting Hill, from Camberwell to Camden Town, the capital city of
Dear Old Blighty pulses anew with the good vibrations of an
epic-scale youthquake!
—Vanity Fair, March 1997 I first settled in London in 1950 at a time when the rubble left over from the Blitz was still in evidence here and there. Food and clothing rationing were still intact. Dowdiness was the rule. But the admirable new National Health Service was working to just about everybody’s satisfaction, and I never once encountered a beggar on the streets. In 1957, along came the Suez crisis. I attended a protest rally in Trafalgar Square and joined the march on Downing Street. A French Communist had instructed us in how to cope with the police on horseback, the so-cal ... This article is available to subscribers and for individual purchaseSubscribe to TNC (Print and Online editions) Subscribe to TNC (Online only) This article originally appeared in The New Criterion, Volume 15 June 1997, on page 39 Copyright © 2012 The New Criterion | www.newcriterion.com http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/backbenchesyouthquakes-richler-3314
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