Word: briton
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Britons actually had very little to be complacent about, snapped Britain's weekly Time and Tide; the U.S. Negro was actually better off. Basing its article on a U.S. embassy pamphlet, The Economic Situation of Negroes in the U.S., Time and Tide reported that U.S. Negroes make more money ($2,700 a year) than the average Briton. More Negroes live in their own homes (36% v. 32%). More than one-third of U.S. Negroes between 18 and 19 were still in school, as compared with fewer than 17% of English children over...
Time and Tide's comparisons failed to take into full consideration some of the differences in the cost of living between England and the U.S. The average Briton pays little for his basic necessities, though what he gets for his money is admittedly basic. Two-bedroom apartments owned and subsidized by local authorities can be rented for as little as $7.60 a week, while the maximum for a four-bedroom house in the suburbs begins at $11.20 a week. The average British family can be fed on $14 a week. Taxes are heavy, but the government pays for womb...
...novel, Irish-Scottish Honor Tracy emerges as a satirist wielding bludgeon and scalpel in defense of the Establishment-that in domitable, mutual-aid group of clergy, big business and old school ties who rule Britain, no matter who wins the elections. Her hero, a proper and rather priggish young Briton named Henry Lamb, is sent to Trinidad in the West Indies as correspondent of Torch, a lit'ry weekly "that's going to teach us all to live." In Trinidad, gushes Torch's lisping editor, "the dwegs and outcasts of the community now are forging a destiny...
Inevitable Comparisons. There is bland acceptance of the fact that much that is now truly and distinctively British was originally borrowed from abroad-largely from France and the U.S. The most prized national characteristic, it was argued, is the universal belief among Britons that they possess a superb sense of humor. British writers, in fact, use humor to put across "a social message which might otherwise seem either boring or too plainly parsonical." Comparisons, odious though they may be, were inevitable. Where "an American novelist wishing to criticize advertising, does so headon, with moralistic violence," says the Times, a Briton...
...first victims was Edwin Morrell, 30, an exchange student from Salt Lake City who in June was kicked out of Moscow State University and accused of trying to "pry secrets" out of trade union officials. A month later three U.S. tourists and a Briton were bounced for distributing copies of USIA's Russian-language magazine Amerika-which...