Word: brogan
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...English, not the British, who started exploration and settlement in North America. Shakespeare is an English author; Burns a Scottish or Scots or Scotch author; Yeats an Irish author. The only British author I can think of at the moment is James Hilton of Goodbye, Mr. Chips. D. W. BROGAN Cambridge, England
...first four now being mailed out indicate the kind of choice we have made: The American Character, by D. W. Brogan; The Power and the Glory, by Graham Greene; Reveille in Washington, by Margaret Leech, and The Worldly Philosophers, by Robert L. Heilbroner. In addition to a positioning preface by the editors of TIME, often as not we hope to incorporate a specially written introduction by a critic or authority in the field, or by the author himself...
Anti-Americanism has been a respected British attitude ever since the American Revolution, which, says Historian D. W. Brogan, was "the great defeat of the English ruling class." In recent years, the feeling has been aggravated by a condition that Anthropologist Geoffrey Gorer calls megaloxenophobia - the fear or envy of The Big Stranger, i.e., the world's dominant power. But there is strong evidence that anti-Americanism is now on the wane...
...honors B.A. in the standard three years (average failure rate: 2%). How they go about it is strictly their business. There are no required courses; attendance at lectures (except in science) is unfashionable, even at those given by such luminous dons as Critic F. R. Leavis, Historian D. W. Brogan and C. S. (Screwtape Letters) Lewis...
...what still must be done, is clear from a steady refrain of Catholic selfcriticism. "In no Western society is the intellectual prestige of Catholicism lower than in the country where, in such respects as wealth, numbers, and strength of organization, it is so powerful," wrote Historian D. W. Brogan. "The general Catholic community in America does not know what scholarship is," said Jesuit Theologian Gustave Weigel of Maryland's Woodstock College. And the Rev. John J. Cavanaugh, Hesburgh's predecessor at Notre Dame, asked sorrowfully, "Where are the Catholic Salks, Oppenheimers, Einsteins...