Word: betjeman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Frightfully Interesting. Poet John Betjeman, for example, paid tribute to his stuffed, 60-year-old ursine friend "Archibald Ormsby-Gore" in his work Summoned by Bells ("Safe were those evenings of the pre-war world/When I turned to Archibald, my safe old bear"). The late Donald Campbell set new speed records with his "Mr. Woppit" along for the ride, and Mountain Climber Walter Bonnati got through one low point on his solitary trek up the Matterhorn's north slopes by confessing his "sins" to Zissi, a tiny Teddy in his knapsack. Princess Alexandra of Kent became almost inconsolable when...
Morris dream was doomed by history. As Poet John Betjeman says of present-day England...
...John Betjeman offered eight whimsically sentimental lines written in a large, childish scrawl...
...Auden, Another Time, The Orators. Charles Baudelaire, Oeuvres Posthumes. John Betjeman, Selected Poems. Andre Breton, Nadja. Albert Camus, L'Etrcmger, La Peste. Louis-Ferdinand Celine, Voyage au Bout
...Britain has been growing lopsided. As lingering depression shuttered the mills and shipyards of Scotland and the industrial north, hundreds of thousands of workers and their families drifted into southeast England. New industries sprang up, and a blotchy urban sprawl transformed the home counties surrounding London into Poet John Betjeman's "dear old, bloody old England of telephone poles and tin." Greater London is being choked by its population explosion; its birth rate is six times that of the rest of the country. Traffic is so congested in the city that when a magazine staged a race between...