Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...soled scuff with the added attraction of a raised ridge at toe level, which is designed to slim ankles and strengthen leg muscles. The Scholl sandals tend to pitch the wearer forward, but Cecil Beaton does not care. Neither do Scholl-shod Jackie Onassis, Jean Shrimpton and all of England's Royal Ballet Company. Greta Garbo clomps around sidewalks in Swedish clogs; so do Dustin Hoffman and the trapeze troupe from Ringling Bros, circus...
That notion about the Church being unprogressive is one of those shibboleths that our party must drop. The Church is all right essentially. Get rid of the establishment; get rid of the bishops; get rid of the candlesticks; get rid of the 39 articles; and the Church of England is just as good as any other Church...
...Jerry Lee Lewis, 33, who was riding high in 1957 with Whole Lot of Shakin' Going On and Great Balls of Fire, was riding low a year later when, on a tour of England, the press discovered that he had married his 13-year-old cousin-fully five months before divorcing his second wife. After that, and some other calamities, he plugged along until about a year and a half ago, when his records caught on big in the Country & Western field. At an appearance last spring at The Scene in Manhattan, where he received a standing ovation, tears...
...escape (pure M-G-M costume drama with disguises, baffled sentries and galloping cabs) was followed by exile. He was happy enough in England, which dearly loves a lord and has always been kind to other nations' revolutionaries, and where he was asked to review his own books. But when he made a foray into France in pursuit of his revolutionary mission, he was jailed...
...LION IN WINTER re-creates the frosty family politics of Henry H's 12th century England in Hampton, N.H., Aug. 11-16; Cooperstown, N.Y., Aug. 19-31; Plymouth, Mass., Aug. 25-30; and Orleans, Mass...