Word: australian
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canberra interviewing scores of businessmen, actors, writers, architects, economists and government officials. Says Karnow, "I personally was so impressed with the country's potential that before I departed, I left material proof of my faith in Australia's future: I invested a modest sum in four Australian companies...
Amidst the dry, gum-tree scrub of Rum Jungle, 60 miles inland from the Timor Sea, miners clad only in boots and shorts drilled uranium out of soft slate. At Woomera, where the waterless South Australian plain stretches endlessly off to the horizon, romantically named drones and missiles-Jindiviks, Blue Streaks and Black Knights-soared over the free world's largest land rocket range. In beach-girt Sydney, schoolteachers and tram conductors exchanged stock market tips, and in stately Adelaide, where Australia's first major Festival of the Arts was in full swing, T. S. Eliot...
...gross national product has rocketed from $5 billion in 1949 to $13.8 billion. Aided by a bold immigration scheme that has brought 1,500,000 Europeans into the country since 1947, Australia is no longer a backwater, but confident of its dynamism and independence. "Nowadays," says a senior Australian diplomat, "we can talk to anybody in the world without any sense of innate inferiority...
...Simple Life. But along with Australia's imitation of things British went a nagging resentment that showed up in the contemptuous word "pommy"-the Australian equivalent of the American word "limey." Aside from the overflow of British jails, Australia's original immigrants often migrated out of poverty, and many were members of Britain's minority races -the Scots, Irish and Welsh. Making a hard living, Australians developed into a tough, contumacious, raffish people, inveterately hostile to authority, and looking at the world with a fresh, irreverent...
...this vigorous atmosphere came an array of exceptional people-Classicist Gilbert Murray, Singer Nellie Melba, Novelist Henry Handel Richardson, Actress Judith Anderson, Dancer Robert Help-mann, Composer Arthur Benjamin and Actor Cyril Ritchard. But it was symptomatic that most Australian artists and intellectuals found their careers abroad (and it is symptomatic of a changed Australia that this is no longer so true...