Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...CHILDREN OF THE HOUSE by Brian Fairfax-Lucy and Philippa Pearce (Lippincott, $3.95) concerns four lonely children growing up in aristocratic poverty in England before World War I. It is quietly moving to watch them finding happiness of sorts among themselves and with their only allies, the servants...
Probably the nastiest problems of all are posed when heads of state get together. In 1475, England's Edward IV and France's Louis XI met in the mid dle of a bridge spanning the Somme near Amiens, with a thick oaken lattice separating them, to settle a war in Picardy. The three feuding princes of Laos -Souphanouvong, Souvanna Phouma and Boun Oum, similarly met in the middle of a bridge over the Nam Lik River in 1961 to launch the talks that eventually led to the country's tenuous neutralization. When Napoleon and Alexander...
...written Oliver Twist to rip the brocade from Puritan England and reveal the human misery beneath. To those who found his melodrama too coarse, Dickens replied: "Criminal characters, to suit them, must be, like their meat, in delicate disguise ... It is wonderful," he continued, "how Virtue turns from dirty stockings; and how Vice, married to ribbons and a little gay attire, changes her name, as wedded ladies do, and becomes Romance...
First there are the sets. "They can't go out whistling the scenery" is the axiom of the musical theater. Yet audiences will at least go out whistling at the scenery. John Box's sets-the largest ever made in England-are miraculous recreations of higher and lower London. Here are the scrubbed Georgian facades of Bloomsbury, the madding, clangorous market streets, the crowded mass of blackened chimneys and gables in the Thamesside jungle. All, all are lifted from England of the 1830's and set down without so much as a cobblestone out of place...
...group of New England farmers at a town meeting wants to tear down the town's last covered bridge to avoid paying the $3000 needed to keep it in good repair. The town selectmen, however, have different ideas, and manage to swing the meeting over to their side, by reminding them of other possible costs. Cooke writes, $3.000, it was suddenly discovered, looked like a bargain. So they voted it, in theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element...