Word: englandisms
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...afford to have people in control of your government who believe that a little higher rate of unemployment is good for you." He admonished New York Democrats to "improvise," and for invidious inspiration he observed: "If the British after Dun kirk hadn't improvised, Hitler would have had England. If the Democrats after Chicago don't improvise, Nixon will have Washington." Improvising a bit himself in finding new darts to aim at the Republican nominee, Humphrey told an audience in Fort Worth that U.S. Marines had to be sent "to rescue [Nixon] from Venezuela...
Harvard and seven other New England universities have established a new University Film Study Center to pool resources in supporting the study of films at college...
Gerry Stein, a member of the Sanctuary Community, said that the New England Draft Resistance Group (NEDRG) put O'Connor in touch with the M.I.T. Resistance. Stein explained that the M.I.T. Resistance had been planning a sanctuary for over three weeks. However, the NEDRG, fearing interference from the F.B.I., did not release the name of the AWOL until a few minutes before the sanctuary began...
...England to which Richardson devotes the first half of the film is a frightful place. All of the outdoor scenes in England were shot in cloudy weather, and through the grey obscurity emerge ghastly relics of an earlier, pre-industrial age. Richardson presents a society where the past oppresses the present. Near the beginning of the film, we are shown a huge equestrian statue of the Duke of Wellington being drawn through the misty streets of London like a pagan idol. They've had it made, and now they don't know where to put it, someone explains. The statue...
...Nolan reveals his incompetent and neurotic superiors in a new, more humane light. Soldiers who fight wars as though they were on parade will produce horrendous disasters, but through it all they retain a certain character, and, one feels, the potential for charity. As Nolan unknowingly predicts before leaving England, the campaign in the Crimea would mark not only the last of the gallant wars, but the first of the modern ones. When the Charge is over, the viewer does not feel he will miss the gallantry, but we know already how much worse modernity will prove...