Word: britishism
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...long, straight course tailor-made for high horsepower, Britain's Tony Brooks led the Ferraris to a one-two-three sweep of the German Grand Prix in West Berlin,* and Brabham failed to finish. But Brabham still leads Brooks in the world driving championship, 27-23, and British experts are betting on the Aussie and the Cooper-Climax to sew up world championship honors on the tortuous turns of the three remaining Grand Prix events...
Empire's Clerks. In part, independent India's university problem is the product of its British heritage. The system that the British colonial rulers inaugurated 125 years ago gave them plenty of English-schooled clerks and civil servants-and gave the aspiring Indian the prestige of a post in which he would never again have to do manual labor. But long after it became apparent that India's crying need was not academic intellectuals but builders, engineers, doctors, technicians and social workers, Indian universities have been dishing out classical education along the old British lines...
Though students still rush out to do political battle as in British times (antiCommunist university demonstrators led the street scuffling in Kerala last week-see FOREIGN NEWS), much of their agitation is for petty, personal aims (easier exams, special movie admission rates), and seems basically a frustrated reaction to the soulless character of their studies and the futility of their future...
Died. The Rev. George Bolton, 59, British-born pastor (1942-59) of the Christian Herald's Bowery Mission, a onetime gambler who wandered aimlessly from city to city, was picked up by a pastor in a Bowery basement where he had gone to sleep; of a heart attack; in Manhattan. Restored and reunited with the wife he deserted in England 14 years before, Bolton turned to helping others, called his congregation of penniless wanderers the "most desperate, most defeated, most faithful in the world," established a "halfway" center to prepare them for a return to normal society...
Gentlemen Don't Wait. Biographer West (the wife of British Historian-Diplomat Harold Nicolson) has skillfully woven Mademoiselle's figure, with her private ardors and ironies, into the larger tapestry of the history, manners, and morals of Bourbon France. Contemporary readers are likely to be more startled by the manners than the morals. The Queen's own gentleman-in-waiting thought nothing of dropping the royal hand for a moment "pour alter pisser contre la tapis-serie." Garbage filled the rank Parisian streets, but the stench of the dandies at court was almost as overpowering. The plumed...