Word: baldwinism
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...discaīre at New Jimmy's in Paris plays mostly American records. Italian coffeehouses proliferate in big U.S. cities, while the Italians wear Jantzen swimsuits on their beaches. Japanese transistor radios, TVs and tape recorders do as well in New York as James Baldwin's novels in Tokyo or Edward Albee's plays in Athens. Robert Rauschenberg, Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol created a pop art derived from the Dadaists and Marcel Duchamp; their work, in turn, has influenced such pop artists in Britain as Joe Tilson and Peter Blake...
...some supremely powerful opponents of the King's marriage were not merely interested in blocking it, but in using it as a pretext for ridding themselves of a ruler whom they did not want. The leaders in this back-room plot, believed Beaverbrook, were Tory Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin and Cosmo Gordon Lang, the Archbishop of Canterbury. "The Archbishop did not want either the King or the marriage," said the Beaver. "Baldwin, the Prime Minister, did not want King Edward and did not care about the marriage one way or the other...
...They Opposed. According to Beaverbrook's version, the Archbishop's opposition arose because Edward was not a faithful or attentive son of the church, and was less than an ardent friend of the Establishment. The motives Beaverbrook ascribed to Baldwin were far more complex. For one thing, Beaverbrook was convinced that Baldwin had never liked Edward personally after they failed to hit it off together on a trip to Canada in 1927. Besides, Beaverbrook held, Baldwin had little regard for Edward's capabilities and resented the King's audacity in expressing skepticism about the value...
...Baldwin hoped to lift his own popularity by dumping the extremely popular King, the Beaver, who himself was a compulsive intriguer, never quite made clear. His case that Edward was the victim of some sinister plot is weakened because the author makes obvious that he was also using the memoir to carry on a vendetta against some of his own enemies. Besides Baldwin, Beaverbrook was particularly harsh on Geoffrey Dawson, editor of the Times of London, which vigorously opposed the marriage. On a couple of occasions, the editor of Beaverbrook's manuscript, Historian A.J.P. Taylor, drops a footnote...
...preference for youth extends to the paper's regular staff as well. Poynter himself is 62, and his executive editor, Don Baldwin, is 48. But after them, the editorial brass are all relative youngsters-a 25-year-old city editor, a 30-year-old sports editor, a 24-year-old telegraph editor. Last month the paper got a new managing editor, Bob Haiman, 30. The Times needed a new managing editor because the old one, Cort Anderson, 30, had been chosen for a top Cowles editorial slot on a new paper being considered for Suffolk County...