Word: britisher
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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CANTERBURY TALES. This British musical has not thrived on a sea change from London. Four of Geoffrey Chaucer's pilgrims' tales are told without the unity of faith and flesh of the 14th century. The pop-rock score seems incongruous, and the dialogue is all in rhyming couplets; the sensation is rather like spending the evening listening to a metronome...
...STRANGLERS, by George Bruce. Before the 1830s, native travelers in India were in constant danger of being choked to death by marauding bands of Thugs who murdered as a religious rite. An account of how a British officer brought the Thugs to heel...
...They are similar in many ways: both are rather homely in looks and style, solid and well-disciplined men, who attain and exercise power by organization and tenacity rather than brilliance or charisma. "The personal chemistry is working," said one participant in the Nixon-Wilson meetings. Nixon pleased his British hosts with several references to the historic "special relationship" between the two countries. The British like to hear that the U.S. still believes there is such a thing, though they are hesitant to mention it themselves...
...eleven hours of discussions, characterized by what a British spokesman called "plain dealing," Nixon and Wilson reviewed the problems facing the two nations-with special attention to the necessity of avoiding further challenges to the dollar and the pound. During his visit, Nixon also met with Conservative Leader Edward Heath and Liberal Leader Jeremy Thorpe, received former Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, who is an old friend from the Eisenhower days, and sat with groups of businessmen, labor and youth leaders, educators and editors. The British are tough judges, but they were taken with their visitor. Said one official who talked...
...television performer between 1959 and 1962 that handsome, red-haired John Freeman became a nationwide celebrity though British viewers of his astringent Face to Face interview show each week seldom saw anything but the back of his head as the cameras zoomed in for closeups of the object of his relentless inquisitorial style. One TV star burst into tears when questioned about his homosexual inclinations. Nixon, who submitted to a Freeman interview in 1951, impressed the future ambassador as "a very good subject indeed," even though they were poles apart in their political views...