Word: british
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Measured by popular standards, the London Economist is as out of place on U.S. newsstands as the Congressional Record in Piccadilly Circus. Devotedly British, the 116-year-old weekly Economist is scholarly and staid in its content, a bit stuffy in its appearance, and it usually devotes only five or six pages per issue to the U.S. (in "American Survey," a department introduced seven years ago). Yet last week, in 171 cities from New York to Los Angeles, the Economist did appear on U.S. newsstands. And sales were so brisk, even at 50? a copy, that some spots in Manhattan...
...British Biologist Sir Julian Huxley is an atheist, but he concedes that "religion of some sort is probably a necessity." In an address to the Darwin Centennial Celebration at the University of Chicago last week, the grandson of Darwin's friend and defender, Biologist Thomas Huxley, went on to describe what he called a "religion" of the future-although it sounded a lot like the old humanist faith of the past. This "belief-system, framework of values, ideology, call it what you will," said Huxley, will have "no need or room for the supernatural." It will be evolutionary, because...
...little community of Indian Israelites knew nothing of their Scriptures until 1819, when U.S. Christian missionaries published a translation of the Book of Genesis into Marathi, the language of the Hindus among whom the Jews lived. And it was only in the 19th century that the British recognized them as a separate community...
...best-kept secrets of World War II was spilled by British Historian Arthur Bryant in a book called The Turn of the Tide (TIME, May 20, 1957). Who really devised the strategy that defeated Germany? Bryant's answer: General Alan Brooke, Chief of the Imperial General Staff from 1941 to 1946. How did Historian Bryant know? Because the general -now Field Marshal Lord Alanbrooke-had said so in his diary, which is the meat and bones of The Turn of the Tide. As Brooke saw it, the Americans were military chumps and not always well-meaning ones. His boss...
...first of these was Edith Barrett Parson's Duck Baby, later followed by a vast sculpture group called The Mystery of Life, in which 22 figures watch a baby chick as it hatches out of an egg. From Europe, Eaton also brought back plans of three famous British churches-the one where Gray wrote his Elegy, the one where, according to legend, Annie Laurie prayed for her lost lover, the one where Kipling was (possibly) inspired to write Recessional-and had them rebuilt in Forest Lawn. The churches were intended for funerals, but last year 183 weddings were held...