Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...police catch up with Biggs, he will be returned to an English prison. Charmain talks of remaining in Australia. "I don't want to have to take my children back to the cold of England," she says. Whatever her plans, she will have some money at last. Australian Consolidated Press is paying $78,400 for the story of how her husband's ill-gotten gains from the great train robbery were quickly drained...
Since World War II, England has tried to tear down the educational barriers that have long divided the country into what Disraeli called two nations of the privileged and the people. Many children in England and Wales still take a rigorous exam around the age of eleven that funnels the gifted minority into grammar schools, which prepare them for universities. The academic chaff is relegated to so-called secondary modern schools that tend to brand their graduates as lifetime "duds." Reform has centered on the establishment of comprehensive schools, their version of U.S. public high schools, which teach all things...
Thin Red Line. Progress has been slow: comprehensive schools still enroll only 21% of all students in the tax-supported secondary schools of England and Wales. One reason is that the elite grammar schools attract middle-class parents who yearn to give their children upper-class accents and the university aura that separates gentlemen from others. Now the Labor Party wants to send all children to comprehensive schools-and many middle-class parents are aghast. If grammar schools go, they charge, their children will have to mix with academic and social inferiors. Seizing the issue, the Conservative Party has vowed...
Anti-egalitarians mounted a chorus of outrage against democratized education in England seven months ago with a collection of essays entitled Fight for Education: A Black Paper. The latest barrage came this month with the publication of Black Paper Two: The Crisis in Education. Both were written by a group of traditionally minded novelists, politicians and educators. As they see it, England's thin red line of intellectual royalists is being overrun by "progressive" reformers who deliberately sabotage old-fashioned academic virtues...
Homosexuality was also common in Elizabethan England's atmosphere of wholesale permissiveness. Yet the era not only produced one of the most robust literary and intellectual outpourings the world has ever known but also laid the groundwork for Britain's later imperial primacy?during which time homosexuality became increasingly stigmatized...