Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Robert Menzies may eloquently summarize the new Australian vigor, but the national motivation of which you speak comes directly from those dinkum "blokes, coves and coots" who see a job to be done and are quietly going about doing it, fortified by a slightly irreverent bush spirit and the best bloody beer in the world...
...omitted a point of amusing historical significance to Americans. When Captain Phillip, R.N., founded the first Australian settlement that "warm January day in 1788," his express assignment was the establishment of a penal colony to replace that lost in America in 1785. The first Australian colonization was a direct result of the War of Independence...
...chosen, Philip Evergood could have lived a perfectly respectable life. His father, an artist named Blashki, was an Australian Jew of Polish descent who emigrated to the US but his mother was a member of a well-to-do Anglican family who was determined to have a son educated in her native England. son educated in her native England. When Philip failed to get past the Committee of Admirals for entrance into for entrance into the Naval Trainging College at Osborner, his father fired an angry letter to First Lord of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill, demanding to know whether...
Well-to-do Australians who used to import their art now decorate their homes with Sidney Nolan's poetic visions of Australia's "outback," William Dobell's savagely realistic portraits, or the landscapes of the late Aborigine Albert Na-matjira. And with Ray Lawler's play, Summer of the Seventeenth Doll-which got raves in London-Aussie audiences for the first time accorded box-office success to a play by an Australian about Australians in the Australian language...
...days with its own distinctive voice. Menzies is British in heart, soul and mind, and in the Suez crisis, after failing to persuade Nasser to accept international control of the canal, Menzies lined Australia behind Sir Anthony Eden's invasion. He did so against the will of former Australian Foreign Minister Richard Casey,-and only New Zealand in the rest of the Commonwealth sided with Britain...