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...Thomas Hughes to Kipling and Orwell, from Harold Nicolson to Robert Graves and Anthony Powell, a succession of British men of letters have devastatingly recollected in tranquillity the fagging and the field sports, the pleasures of playing up and the dark night of a sensitive soul fallen among rugger-bugger philistines...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Goodbye to All That | 9/28/1970 | See Source »

...Great Bitter Lake by the closing of the Suez Canal that he stood up Arab Commando Leader Yasser Arafat and influential Editor Hassanein Heikal for lunch. During his talks with Nasser, he repeatedly addressed Nasser's adviser on foreign affairs, Dr. Mahmoud Fawzi, as "you wily old bugger...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Levantine Laugh-In | 2/2/1970 | See Source »

...enough to spend a buck on anything that bears the Lampoon's moniker must have already been foolish enough to read through all of J.R.R. Tolkein's The Lord of the Rings trilogy. So. it is only fitting and just, that Bored tells the mythopoetic fable of one Frito Bugger, an odious little Boggie. who accompanies the wizardly Goodgulf on a haphazard junket across Lower Middle Earth. Their mission: to dispose of an evil Ring by tossing it into the Zaza Pitts of Fordor before being captured by the nasty nares. With self-consciously clever digressions on drugs, violence...

Author: By Gregg J. Kilday, | Title: Put-ons Bored of the Rings | 11/4/1969 | See Source »

...balding man told me. "I've got a wife and five kids and I want to put a down payment on a house in Salisbury." Another Rhodesian had a second motive: "That Harold Wilson is a bastard. He's against Biafra and he's buggering us too. This is a chance to bugger him." Everyone roared with laughter...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: World: Keeping Biafra Alive | 12/6/1968 | See Source »

...fried egg: "If a person wants to make a pact with the Devil, the old Congolese told me, he should take a hammer and a big nail, look for a young ceiba-tree in the countryside and hammer on the trunk hard three time. As soon as the bugger hears this call, he come, quite cool and cocky, as if he didn't care a damn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Cuban Curiosity | 9/20/1968 | See Source »

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