Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...schoolmarm in tweed skirts and sensible shoes? That hardly sounds like Britain's Vanessa Redgrave, protester for all reasons. Still, she is starting a school for children in England. "We've got all kinds of ideas of what the school should be" says Vanessa, "but I think we should learn from the children themselves." One course is already set: Swimming. "The wonderful thing about swimming is that it's the only natural environment in which a child can be totally independent from an adult; water is a natural element." After all, says the new pedagogue, "a child...
...Italy's most renowned contemporary playwright, and while he is little known in the U.S., 45 European theaters have produced his works in the past year alone, including performances in Germany, England, France and most of the Iron Curtain countries. Until recently, he and his blonde actress-wife Franca Rame could command combined annual earnings of $120,000. While Fo's plays still garner respectable royalties, he settles for $11.20 per diem in Grand Pantomime, which comes close to the average ticket price for a Broadway musical...
Cavanagh was named the recipient of the Walter Brown Award as the outstanding American college hockey player in New England at the fourth annual, Gridiron Club's Hockey Dinner on Tuesday...
Sophomore Alan Watson is rated son, who had previously excelled in the among the favorites in the slalom. Watgiant slalom, has only perfected the shorter race this year. A member of the Eastern Ski team, his greatest victory came in the New England Kandahar last year when he beat 97 of the East's top performers...
Democracy flourished on the frontier. First in the small towns of New England, then later in the prosperity of the middle western plains, democracy grew in the process of town building and the community effort required to produce prosperity. Abraham Lincoln was its symbol and proponent in the nineteenth century...