Word: anglo
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ewart-Biggs, 54, was posted as British Ambassador to Ireland last month, the Dublin embassy had been a quiet backwater where aging diplomats drifted into retirement. But Ewart-Biggs, a veteran diplomatic troubleshooter, had been hand-picked for the Dublin job by British Prime Minister James Callaghan to coordinate Anglo-Irish policy in the face of a surge of terrorism that has been spilling south into Ireland from the embattled British province of Ulster. The survivor of several brushes with violence, he wore a distinctive tinted monocle covering an eye lost at El Alamein in World...
...George Blanda is compared to Ulysses as he copes on "the green oval floor of the amphitheater" otherwise known as a football field. The "unforgettable stance and fluid swing" of Joe DiMaggio cannot be celebrated without cosmic theorizing. "Baseball is as close a liturgical enactment of the White Anglo-Saxon Protestant myth as the nation has," Novak writes. "It is to games what the Federalist Papers are to books...
Tart and Treacle. The gibes were not always unfriendly though. A generation of British children grew up believing that Santa Claus had an American accent and called all girls Honey. There were more than 70,000 wartime Anglo-American marriages, and the great majority appear to have fared well...
...year scholarship after a private school education in India--to Atlantic College in South Wales where there were students from "30 or 35 countries." Having lived mainly in the West for the last three years he feels little sense of being patronized. One American pharmacist (in the Anglo-Indian style he calls them "chemists") felt called upon recently, Haldipur says, to read out loud every direction on a bottle of prescription medicine to him. "I felt like reminding him I could read, but I let him have his fun," Haldipur says. He says he realizes that the pharmacist meant...
...many, change seems inevitable. Columbia Law Professor Abraham Sofaer believes that the increase of plea bargaining, no-fault insurance, smaller juries and non-unanimous verdicts are all signs of an erosion of "classical notions of Anglo-Saxon justice." Chief Justice Warren Burger seeks higher educational and other standards for those admitted to the trial bar in the hope of eliminating frivolous, time-consuming contentiousness. New York Federal Judge Marvin E. Frankel points to a much deeper problem in the procedural games that adversary attorneys play. Because they often use the rules to trample the truth, Frankel has gently proposed thinking...