Word: betjeman
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Today, the outskirts of Carlisle, just south of the Scottish border, are almost indistinguishable from the outskirts of Southampton 400 miles away, and along the highways between the two cities, William Blake's "green & pleasant land" of 150 years ago has been transformed into latter-day Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telegraph poles and tin." All told, more than 40% of the British population lives in seven monstrous conurbations surrounding London, Birmingham, Manchester, Leeds, Liverpool, Newcastle and Glasgow...
Queen Elizabeth II was pleased to bestow her royal blessings on some 2,000 of her subjects. Among those cited on the New Year Honors List: Actor John Mills, 51, and Poet John Betjeman, 53, both made Commanders of the British Empire; Actor Stanley Holloway, 62, the cockney "Get me to the church on time" of My Fair Lady fame, who becomes an officer in the Order of the British Empire; and Australian-born Actress Judith Anderson, 61, a U.S. resident for 42 years, who becomes a Dame Commander. Alan Lennox-Boyd, 55, the Tory's beleaguered former Colonial...