Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result, the Rev. George Hedley is still a Methodist, but he wears his Methodism with a difference. Frail-looking but sinewy, George Hedley, 60, is the well-beloved, brilliant father figure and campus character of California's small (700 students) Mills College for women. Born in China to British Methodist missionary parents, educated in England and the University of Southern California, he had served as director of the Pacific Coast Labor School from 1936 to 1941, when he went to Mills as chaplain. Since then, Chaplain Hedley has also become department chairman and professor of economics and sociology, teaches...
Married. Victor Mature, 45, hulking cinemactor (The Big Circus), and Joy Urwick, 25, British actress; he for the fourth time, she for the first; in Tijuana, Mexico...
Over the Bounding Main. Delfino became intrigued by the possibilities of Down Under livestock in 1957, made a deal with the New Zealand government to ship 1,500 steers to the U.S. He chartered an old coal-burning British banana boat with a Panamanian registry, a Filipino captain, Australian officers, Chinese crewmen and Indian and Filipino herdsmen to handle the cattle. But he was in trouble before he cleared port...
LADY L., by Remain Gary. A relatively slight and urbane book, but one that the year needed. The British lady turns out to be a reformed French prostitute, and her old anarchist lover is cast as Author Gary's target: a handsome, humorless fellow so bent on saving humanity that he forgets the nature of humans and their occasional indisposition to be saved...
Novelist Gary died before he could finish his book, but his imperfect work has more of life's stuff in it than all but a few of the year's other novels. His hero is a seedy, reedy British faith healer. Gary's unanswered question: Does the mystical hipster sometimes feel more truly than the Establishment square...