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...Sociology and Social Studies--have, I think it is fair to say, much enjoyed teaching those courses in social theory that the department considers compulsory for its incoming graduate students. (One term in a four-year period was taught by someone else--Dr. Geoffrey Hawthorn of Cambridge University, another Brit., and adistinguished exegist at that!) There is room for Sociology and for Social Studies, and I hope that the links between the two areas can be strengthened: Differently put, there is nothing wrong with Sociology, just with some pronouncements recently made in its name...
...Last Lion: Winston Spencer Churchill; Alone: 1932-1940 by William Manchester (1988). Although not as long or crammed as Martin Gilbert's official eight-volume life of Winnie, Volume II of Manchester's opus takes the irrepressible Brit through the gathering storm to the first thunderclaps of World War II and demonstrates that the author is one of today's best writers of narrative prose...
...Tigers can claw from all sides. Led by Brit Dewey, the Princeton defense will challenge the tremendous offensive trio of Co-Captain Char Joslin, Lisa Cutone, and Landau...
...Brit Dewey is an outstanding sweeper," Caples said. "She is probably the backbone of the team...
...trite. It is almost as if this supermole wanted to demystify his own legend, making double agentry seem as banal as bartending. The impression of ordinariness is reinforced by his chatty letters to Knightley, which are cited in extenso. Philby comes across as a slightly dotty old Brit, complaining about how hard it is to find "bilambees" (an Indian vegetable) in Moscow and fuming about the "preposterous" radio commentaries of "the BBC's own Smarty Cooke, Alistair of that...