Word: basil
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...England," most islanders -who are descended from sailors shipwrecked on the island in the 19th century -just could not cope with progress. Said one: "When you don't want to get up in the morning back home, you just stay in bed." Added 30-year-old Basil Lavarello: "TV nearly sends us mad. Cars, buses and trains roar like thunder through our brains. Way back in Tristan, a man can come to grips with his soul and his Creator...
...years ago by King Edward VII-it makes up in exclusiveness: only 24 living Britons at any one time are entitled to write O.M. after their names. Filling two vacancies left by the deaths of Historian G. M. Trevelyan and Portraitist Augustus John, Queen Elizabeth named goateed Architect Sir Basil Spence, 55, rebuilder of the bombed-out Coventry Cathedral, and Aviation Pioneer Sir Geoffrey deHavilland, 80, whose company turned out swarms of Mosquito fighter-bombers during World War II. to join the distinguished company of such men as Poet T. S. Eliot, Prime Ministers Attlee and Churchill...
...took only five minutes for Scottish Architect Basil Spence, standing in the bombed-out shell of Coventry Cathedral one day in 1950, to conceive a design for the new cathedral. "I knew my task was to design a new building linked to the old which would stand for the triumph of the Resurrection," Sir Basil wrote later. "The ruins were the Old Testament, the new cathedral would be the New. The idea of the design was planted in my mind and never changed." Last week Architect Spence stood again at Coventry, this time to watch the ceremonial consecration...
...Lord Mayor: "Can we be sure that a cathedral would be so useless? We have never had a greater need for an act of faith." He overruled the council. A competition for design drew more than 600 requests for specifications and 219 final plans. The winner was bearded, eloquent Basil Spence, who fainted at the new?s of his victory...
Victim has a neat plot, deft direction by Basil Dearden, and the sort of grum good manners one expects of the British in these trying situations. It also has a careful performance by Bogarde, and it pursues with eloquence and conviction the case against an antiquated statute...