Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Jobs for Residents. Though roughly 100 communities that are described by their developers as new towns have been constructed or are now abuilding in the U.S., few even approach Tapiola-or Scotland's Cumbernauld and England's Welwyn, for that matter. Too often, the U.S. new towns have proved to be little more than well-planned upper-and middle-class suburbs that provide few jobs for residents and no homes for lower-income workers...
Legal Challenge. To Obstetrician Aleck William Bourne (now retired but a hale 82), this strict regulation seemed outrageous. In 1938 he performed an abortion on a 14-year-old girl,who had been gang-raped by horse guardsmen, then invited the Attorney General of England to prosecute him. After 40 minutes' deliberation, the jury acquitted Bourne-and the "Bourne rule" stood for 30 years. Its effect was to make abortion available to any Englishwoman who was articulate and well-off enough to persuade doctors to certify, by a liberal interpretation of the law, that continuation of her pregnancy would...
Change in Attitude. Many doctors are protesting, some have become highly emotional about the matter, and a few are trying to sabotage the law. In Birmingham, England's second-largest city (pop. 1,200,000), Professor Hugh McLaren, a strong-willed Scottish Presbyterian, simply refuses to perform abortions except in case of "dire peril" to the woman's life. Since he is head of the NHS's Maternity Hospital there, he can decree what subordinates may or may not do-and they may not perform abortions. The effect of the McLaren ukase is to send most Birmingham...
...Sunday, Cetrulo won 17 consecutive sabre matches to win the New England Amateur championships. The honor, gained in competition with 32 other amateurs, qualifies the sophomore star for the North Atlantic Amateur Championships in early...
...event. Celine said that he wrote the way people talk and evidently regarded this as a startling innovation. It may be considered a departure only by comparison with the preposterous presumption of the 1930s, when French novelists assumed that all Parisians thought like Voltaire and talked like Racine. In England and elsewhere, low speech in fiction has been a commonplace convention for decades. Only a Frenchman would regard it as a Gallic invention...