Word: british
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...YORK--The British have withdrawn their challenge for the America's Cup in 1970, apparently because of economic factors, the New York Yacht Club announced Wednesday...
...withdrawal of the British still leaves the French and the Australians vigorously preparing for the elimination trials...
...British last challenged for the Cup in 1964. Their representative, The Sovereign,lost four straight races to the American defender, The Constellation...
...collection of quickie critical pieces done for British and U.S. periodicals shows how robustly a generously endowed intelligence like Burgess's can flourish within the limits of deadline and an even deadlier limitation of space...
...English criticism, which is not normally ideological although the Burgess polarities have been roughly characterized as Cavalier and Roundhead. Yet Burgess's prose never seems plodding despite his spiritual preoccupations. In any case, he is the kind of man who could write a light review of a heavy British Treasury tax form. Should he do so in the future, it will have to be written from Valetta. Anthony Burgess has transplanted himself from tax-heavy Britain to Malta. This move is part of what the British deplore as the Brain Drain. Where Burgess is concerned, both the brain...