Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Iver Armstrong Richards was born in Sandbach, Cheshire, England; he was educated in Cambridge where he also served as one of the first lecturers in English literature. Since 1939 Professor Richards has taught at Harvard, first as lecturer (1939-44) and then as University Professor...
...seems that in the past sixty years our culture has taken such a sharp turn that the problem in England and the United States lies in a re-interpretation of our own culture--Milton's milieu or earlier--a culture almost as foreign to us as the Greeks or Romans were to our literary fore-bearers...
...pound sent antique silver prices in London leaping upward like startled fawns. Then, of course, there is the whole mystique of style. Most congenial to the eyes of modern collectors is the gracefully severe Queen Anne style, which was developed by French Huguenots who fled across the Channel to England to escape religious persecution in 1685. The rococo elegance of mid-18th century English designers like Paul de Lamerie has an extravagant appeal of its own. The robust baroque styles of the 17th century are rarer, but in some ways the most memorable of all. Last November, two James...
...insularity does not really worry Promoter Seltzer all that much. The rest of the country knows all too well what he is doing. Take Atlanta, for example. Last week 3,600 Roller Derby fans jampacked Municipal Auditorium to watch the touring San Francisco Bay Bombers battle the New England Braves. The fundamentals of the game were easy enough to grasp: with men and women alternating, two teams of five skaters each circle a banked oval track in a tight cluster. Then one or two skaters from each team break from the pack and attempt to score points by "jamming...
...plucked from a job with a Wall Street law firm in 1956 by Textron's flamboyant founder, Royal Little. When Little retired four years later, Miller stepped into the presidency under Chairman Rupert Thompson, 63, an imaginative ex-banker. Thompson, a major stockholder, built Textron into New England's second largest company (after United Aircraft) before he turned over his chief executive's title to Miller a year...