Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lesser men, courage has often been a means to lesser ends. "Who gets wealth that puts not from the shore?" asked Poet Samuel Daniel in England's expansive 16th century. "Danger hath honor; great designs their fame/Glory doth follow, courage goes before." Daniel's poem was the mercantile ethic frozen in meter. In that spirit, the conquistadors braved terra incognita to bleed Montezuma of his gold; the slave traders kidnaped tribesmen from Africa. In that spirit empires were created-and the conflicts of colonialism that still haunt the world. The motives for these enterprises were not necessarily ignoble...
BRIAN PATRICK McGUIRE Graduate Student Balliol College Oxford, England...
Unique Penetration. Support for the trade-restricting measures cuts through geographic and party lines because shoe manufacturing is scattered across 40 states. It is a principal industry in New England and ranks high in Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Missouri, Arkansas, Ohio and North Carolina. Altogether, 253 Congressmen have shoe plants in their home districts, most of them located in small towns where they are vital to the local economy...
...share of the domestic market to last year's 175 million pairs, or about 21% of the market. "No other industry that now enjoys import limitation or even the promise of import limitation can show market penetration of 21%," says Senator Smith. "Seven plants closed in New England during the first four months of 1969 with imports cited as a major factor in each case...
...succeeds to the extent that Friday learns English and performs complicated chores. But the Negro-Indian half-caste will go no further; he refuses to be a black Englishman. Although he is tireless, he is not diligent. He is clever, but not rational. For him, the Church of England, punitive ditch digging and goatskin trousers are merely the mystifying apparatus of Crusoe's games. At last, Crusoe realizes that Friday's instincts may be more sensible than his own. He abandons his bookkeeping system of morality, adopts Friday's formless sun worship and lives in harmony with...