Word: britishism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Room at the Top (at the Kenmore). Perhaps the best British film since Guinness and Hawkins teamed up in The Prisoner, this is a deeply penetrating and significant study of English sex and society, with some of the frankest dialogue ever to come across the screen. Won award for "best performance by an actress" (Simone Signoret) at Cannes; named "best picture of the year, 1959" by the British Film Academy...
...Monty's Double (at the Exeter). A witty script in which Clifton James, playing three roles, re-enacts the true and magnificent hoax that the British played on the German high command in World...
...back in England a week later with union approval to hire a printer in Essex. The Economist, which was printed in a Swiss nunnery during a lesser strike in 1956, found a printer in Brussels, moved to Paris a week later, after Belgian unions expressed sympathy for the British strikers and threatened a boycott...
HIGH VOLTAGE ENGINEERING CORP. sprang from wartime research by M.I.T. Physicist Robert Van de Graaff. M.I.T. Engineer John Trump and British Engineer Denis M. Robinson. They started manufacturing Buck Rogers gear in a dreary Cambridge garage, moved to Route 128 in 1956. High Voltage now builds giant (three stories high) particle accelerators that can sterilize materials by firing a stream of electrons through them. The accelerators are also used for high-energy physics studies and for breaking down chromosomes to study their properties, may soon be used commercially to irradiate food so that it will keep for years without refrigeration...
Room at the Top. A tragicomedy of Angry Young Manners about a Julien Sorel of the welfare state. Sometimes embarrassingly close to caricature, it remains one of the best British pictures in years...