Word: australian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next day the old Prime Minister at tended a government luncheon honoring his Australian opposite number: Prime Minister Sir Gordon Menzies, homeward bound from London. In a thinly veiled warning to Commonwealth colleagues India and Pakistan, Malan told the world that South Africa "stands for the security of white civilization and Australia stands for a white Australia. The day may come when ... the same powers in the Indian Ocean that suggested that the white man must quit Africa might be knocking on the door of Australia . . . When Australia needs a friend, we shall be there...
During the 1952 presidential campaign, liberal U.S. intellectuals-in-politics resented the term "egghead," reading it as part of an attack against intellectuality as such. British intellectuals, particularly of the left wing, have shown similar indignation against similar remarks. Last week Australian Colin Clark, a distinguished political economist now lecturing at Oxford, suggested that the debate is narrower than a supposed issue between intellectuals and "know-nothings...
...tight little band of political elite that Rhodes hoped would run the English-speaking world. Of the 2,831 selected since 1903, almost half have gone into law or education: 33 have headed colleges or universities, 44 have become judges. Medicine and science have taken some; one-Australian Pathologist Sir Howard Florey-shared a Nobel Prize. In the U.S., the scholars have ranged from Author Christopher Morley to Commentator Elmer Davis to Dean Rusk, now head of the Rockefeller Foundation. But few have ever been elected to a major political office...
...peach Melba were named. It is a rich, creamy, Technicolored movie biography that consists of a series of arias, as Mme. Melba moves from one operatic triumph to another. The songs are imbedded in a fictionalized, soggily romantic yarn about the men in the diva's life: her Australian husband (John McCallum), who walked out on her (in real life, Melba left him and their child to take up an operatic career in Paris); a rich London playboy (John Justin), who helped her get started on her career; and an amorous hotelkeeper (Alec Clunes). Also figuring in the film...
Servant of the Crown. On Norfolk Island, 870 miles off the Australian coast, the inhabitants were looking for one man to be their 1) forest ranger, 2) police force, 3) bailiff, 4) jailer, 5) examiner of livestock and slaughterhouses, 6) inspector of noxious weeds...