Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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JESUS REDISCOVERED, by Malcolm Muggeridge. The 66-year-old British cultural curmudgeon writes tellingly of the ways and means and meditations that led to his conversion to Christianity...
FLASHMAN: FROM THE FLASHMAN PAPERS 1839-1842, edited and arranged by George MacDonald Fraser. But don't believe it for a minute. Though Flashman has fooled several scholars, it is actually an agreeable fictional takeoff on assorted British tales of derring-do in the days of the Empah...
...commission-a mixed bag of Congressmen, lawyers, educators, psychiatrists and sociologists-was established last year. Its report recommends self-policing by the networks and suggests guidelines. These include a reduction in programs that contain violence; elimination of violence from children's programs; and adoption of the British practice of scheduling crime and adventure stories in the evening after children...
...religious impulses implanted in him by his father, whose religion, as it happened, was socialism-the new faith at the turn of this century of the English Disestablishment. "A sort of agnosticism sweetened by hymns," as Muggeridge puts it, adding that there is more "Methodism than Marxism" in the British Labor Party. This chapel heritage enables him to update Calvin, Knox, Cotton Mather, Praise-God Barebone, and all scourgers of the flesh since St. Paul. Anglican bishops, priests and politicians of every stripe feel his lash, as well as all persons seeking happiness by sun, the Pill...
...FitzGibbon gets his loudest polemic laughs from dead trends and left leftovers. A translator-novelist-critic of Irish and American descent and European education, he now lives in Ireland. His novel When the Kissing Had to Stop, a political cautionary tale of a Russian takeover from a fellow-traveling British government, made him a bogeyman to left-leaning intellectuals. It also won him a Communist Party accolade-"fascist hyena...