Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...publication will not be morally repugnant should be clear to anyone who has watched the pleasantly inane goings-on in the Yard this summer, and to say that we at The Crimson do not consider the paper as serious competition would be to argue the obvious with a positively British flair for understatement. Still, the circumstances surrounding the new paper's origins deserve a bit of scrutiny...
...British-born Reggie Mitchell, 55, who was an officer in the Indian army under the raj, worked his way across the U.S. as a book salesman, hardhat, lumberjack and journalist before opening Reggie's British Pub in Atlanta's splendiferous Omni International complex on Battle of Britain Day (Sept. 15) two years ago. "Even my fellow lumberjacks accepted me here without any questions about who I was or where I came from," he recalls. "The generosity of the people and the mobility of society here are very appealing. There is a resiliency that was missing...
...born in Peru of Italian ancestry, earned his degrees in Italy, owned a prosperous oil trading company in Houston and decided to settle permanently in the U.S. Says Laurenti: "Here you get rewarded for your merits, not for what your father has done." Michael Garstin, 29, a British-born London School of Economics graduate, came to the U.S. in 1974 as a trainee with the Chase Manhattan Bank. Says he: "I wanted to be nearer the source of power." His Scottish girlfriend, Annemarie Cairns, also 29, had a good job in a London public relations firm and did not initially...
Generally, though, the first days settle into exciting weeks and rewarding months, and the most tentative of new citizens begins to sound like a charter member of the D.A.R. Ask David John Bickerstaff, 32, a British automotive engineer who moved to Detroit in 1973, owns a four-bedroom home with swimming pool and a vacation cottage in northern Michigan. "When I meet a cynical guy in the U.S.," says Bickerstaff, "I tell him: 'Why don't you go to England and live? You'll come back a happy American.' " -Michael Demarest
Congo Diary traces the first autobiographical flutters of that sentence from Heart of Darkness. After more than ten years as a seaman and officer in the British merchant navy, Conrad signed a three-year contract with a Belgian company to serve on river steamboats that plied the Congo River. "Like an empty Huntley and Palmer biscuit tin" was his description of boats like...