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...Born. To Lynn Redgrave, 25, comic half (Georgy Girl) of filmdom's sister act (Vanessa's credits include Blow-Up, Camelot), and John Clark, 35, British-born actor (MacBird); their first child, a boy; in London...
There is nothing highhanded about Thalassa, a 59-year-old British-born grandmother who finds "relief from the everyday pressures of life by working among living things which refuse to be hurried." On her twice-weekly show, Making Things Grow, which is carried on five educational stations in New England, she is to spathiphyllum cannae-folium what TV Chef Julia Child is to pate en croute...
...Britain has compulsory education up to the age of 16. So it is the next few years that will show whether the school system has succeeded in wiping out these initial disadvantages, or whether it is only maintaining them. If the schools fail to integrate the British-born children of immigrants, it will prove that British society as it is now constituted has failed to cope with, and indeed has succeeded in perpetuating, the problem...
There is every indication that the British educational system has failed. Children are streamed into classes at the age of eleven, according to their score on the British equivalent of an achievement test. Like American tests, the 11+ exam discriminates heavily against children who do not come from middle-class white backgrounds. There is no sign that British-born colored people have an easier-time...
When the U.S. Army in 1949 turned the theater over to Wolfgang and Wieland Wagner, the composer's grandsons, certain stipulations were part of the deal. One was that the directors should eliminate all Nazi undertones in their mountings of the music dramas. Another, not unrelated, was that British-born Winifred Wagner, widow of the composer's son Siegfried and mother of Wolfgang and Wieland, should abdicate her long-held role as iron-fisted matriarch of Bayreuth's every artistic and managerial move. Winifred had been a high-ranking Nazi, a personal friend and financial supporter...