Word: britannicus
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Colored Flood. Many Britons are uneasy at this reversal of traditional Commonwealth policy. As a report by the Church of Scotland put it, the law reduces that sense of "belonging with which any man in any Commonwealth land or language could say, 'Civis Britannicus sum.' " Though the act applies to all Commonwealth countries, white and black, everyone acknowledges that it is intended to discriminate against colored immigrants. But there was little protest in Britain last week, even from M.P.s and newspaper editors who had argued against the bill when it was introduced last November in Parliament. The silence...
...Versailles and Les Fourberies de Scapin (by Molière) opened the Comédie Française' three-week visit at the City Center by happily passing up fanfare for fun. With such full-length classics as Molière's Tartuffe and Racine's Britannicus to follow, a troupe that matches polish with perkiness leaped in with minor Molière and made it seem, in a dreary season, a major evening even for those with shaky French. The two works, moreover, make a pleasant contrast...