Word: britishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...over the North Atlantic, but no matter. Diminutive Bernadette Devlin, at 22 the youngest member of Britain's House of Commons and a notable firebrand in Northern Ireland's recent disorders, overnight became the biggest sensation to arrive in the U.S. from the British Isles since the Beatles and Twiggy...
...Richard Daley, Bernadette sniffed: "I don't even want a donation from him," and she did not meet Los Angeles' Sam Yorty. Everywhere, she warned against oversimplifying Northern Ireland's problems. "The press feels we're either trying to kick hell out of the British or kick hell out of the Protestants," she said in Los Angeles. "What we really want are our civil rights...
Truth Squad. While Bernadette was making the heady round of U.S. cities, a sullen quiet prevailed back home. British Tommies still served as an efficient barrier between the Protestant and Catholic neighborhoods of Belfast and Londonderry. Home Secretary James Callaghan flew over from London. On his arrival, he said: "I'm not here to dictate to the Northern Ireland government. I've come here to help." To a crowd in Catholic Bogside, however, Callaghan said: "I am not neutral. I am on the side of all those who are deprived of justice and freedom. I will apply myself...
...Ulster's twelve representatives at Westminster; since her election last April, she has turned up for very few sessions. What is more, Kenneth Lewis, a Tory M.P., suggests that Bernadette may have violated her parliamentary oath of allegiance in calling for a U.S. boycott of British products. "Obviously," he said, "the British Parliament has got an M.P. who is a 'Trojan filly...
...University of Chicago, where he teaches and directs the Sonia Shankman School for psychotic children. His considered conclusion is that American parents and American society have not given today's youth the emotional equipment for engaging in rational and constructive protest. In the September issue of the British magazine Encounter, Bettelheim spells out his ideas, which have been raising controversy at academic conferences and press conferences for the past six months. Among them: > "When I see some of these students -'unwashed' and 'unkempt'-I cannot help thinking: There goes another youngster who, as an infant...