Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...British-born Constable said that he will make no major changes in Stewart's policies on such matters as parietals, coed housing, and the choice of tutors...
...British term for civilians doing scientific work for the Air Force. Haldane served both Air Ministry and Navy during World...
...Nixon and Mr. Wilson have expensively hired press secretaries whose job is to disguise the truth and to avoid straight questions." In sum, Dimbleby felt that Nixon had drawn "not as big a crowd as Kennedy would have and not as hostile a crowd probably as L.B.J." What the British had witnessed, he concluded, was "another stage in the so-called de-monsterization of Nixon - that's what the American press calls it -discovering that this man, of whom they thought so ill, does, in fact, have some merit. Though, of course, he is still an untested President...
Change as Ruin. In Torregreca, no undue sentimentality was shown on either side. By 1959, beneath her Poughkeepsie patina, Miss Cornelisen had become a five-year veteran of Southern Italy, working for a British charity called the Save the Children Fund, bent on setting up nursery centers in recalcitrant mountain villages. Torregreca was the intended scene of her greatest triumph: a new master center where teachers could be developed and experiments initiated. Thus trained and dedicated, she soon found that the town's aura of Romantic gilt was misleading...
What a scientist does outside his laboratory is as absorbing to the global villagers of this electronic age as the personal foibles of the parish priest were to parochial villagers of an earlier time. Thus the biography of J.B.S. Haldane, British geneticist, biochemist, politician and honored boffin,* is doubly interesting. As one of the last great Victorian eccentrics, Haldane carried the belligerent confidence of that era into the conformist corridors of the mid-20th century. As an aristocrat turned Communist, he was a classic caricature of the greathearted scientist who, as social pundit, squanders the fame acquired in one field...