Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...televised news conference, Lee promised that Singapore, which he hopes eventually to unite with the mainland's independent Federation of Malaya, will not go Communist "unless and until Malaya goes Communist." The British hope that the fervent anti-Communism of Malaya's ruling conservatives, and Lee's own comprehension of the island's economic, dependence on foreign trade and capital, will hold him on a moderate course. As he congratulated Prime Minister Lee last week, retiring British Governor Sir William Goode (who will stay on as High Commissioner until a native of Singapore can be named...
Room at the Top. A Tenzing among social climbers ice-picks his way to the top of a grim British industrial town...
Green has long served on foreign affairs committees, but he speaks no foreign language, has visited Europe only as a World War I army officer, has never visited Washington. Toward the British Commonwealth, his record is faithful support; toward the U.S., friendship tempered with wariness...
...Dave King Show (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* A British young man who is not angry about anything at all, merely perplexed, original and funny...
Perhaps because he grew up in a drab manufacturing area near Manchester and once wrote about a young man making love to a doxy in an outhouse, Novelist John Wain, 34, has been tarred by British critics with the feathers of the Angry Young Men. Novelist Wain rejects the label-and with good reason. With this novel about marital infidelity as practiced by England's rootless middle class, he identifies himself with a school that looks back not in anger but in languor...