Word: british
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Foreign visitors more often than not come out of his presence with a look of glazed incredulity. British Foreign Secretary David Owen almost certainly did say after one meeting with Begin, "I can't stand that man." Though American diplomats put up a good front about their feelings toward him, other ambassadors are less restrained. One, when asked at a private party what he thought of Begin, observed, "He's beyond the pale...
...fight they did. For what the London auction house of Sotheby Parke Bernet billed as the "sale of the century," dealers, museum directors and assorted collectors from all over the world converged on the British capital to join in a buying spree whose force startled even the more jaded veterans of the polished world of high-priced art. To be sure, nothing like the colossal 700-work collection of medieval ivories and enamels, old master paintings and drawings, Renaissance sculpture and impressionist paintings amassed by onetime German Leather Manufacturer Robert von Hirsch was likely to come on the block soon...
MARRIAGE REVEALED. Yevgeny Yevtushenko, 44, Soviet Establishment poet and Jan Butler, 25, British translator who has been the poet's assistant for three years; he for the third time, she for the first; on April 20 in Moscow...
DIED. Robert Fabian, 77, legendary British detective who until 1949 headed Scotland Yard's Flying Squad; in Epsom, Surrey, England. Fabian said that to beat a crook one had to follow the "reasonings of his warped mind," but his findings were as often the result of tenacious 18-hour-a-day investigations. In his most famous case, the Alec de Antiquis murder in 1947, he traced the killers through a ticket sewn in the lining of a filthy raincoat. After his retirement, he lectured and wrote Fabian of the Yard. His book and sleuthing inspired movie plots...
Witch hunts never cease; only the witches change. Early 17th century France was rife with witch trials. Aldous Huxley chose to write about one that occurred in 1634. His book The Devils of Loudun provided the material for this raw adaptation. Since British Playwright John Whiting's early death in 1963, the play has acquired something of a cult following. Cult plays rarely improve on revival, and The Devils is no exception, but they do often contain scenes or ideas of piquant interest...