Word: englands
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...HUTTON London, England...
...years after, four years after, the free world could hardly be said to have a new path, a new way of its own. But paths, they say in New England, are made by going around rocks. The Western world had found what it wanted to avoid. In the warlike peace, it had discovered a little of a new pride in its old standards. It had almost learned new humility in which the Germans and the Japanese, for all the evil they had done, might become comrades in the struggle against evil...
Felix's librettist had taken a theme somewhat appropriate to the time. The beloved son has been away "fighting the good fight" for seven years (Felix had actually been on a six-month trip to England and Scotland); finally, after an imposter (the stranger) tries to pass himself off as the returned prodigal, the real son returns to his parents amid great rejoicing. But in the Lemonade Opera's church-basement opera house, even John (Man in the Moon) Gutman's fine translation and adaptation failed to give the action much charm or excitement...
Frail, timid William de Littlehampton was born in the wrong century and spent a lot of his time wishing he hadn't been born at all. Richard the Lion Heart was England's dashing monarch and knighthood was in flower; but at 20, Willie sat his horse like a sack of meal, rattled in his 12th Century armor like an ill-packed skeleton and couldn't get out of the way of his own lance and sword...
Lieut. Colonel F. Spencer Chapman never got his diaries back, but what had happened to him in the Malay jungles was etched in his memory. His book, The Jungle Is Neutral, has been greeted in England with the kind of praise that British reviewers pass out once in a blue moon -"magnificent," "enthralling," "terrific." It is indeed one of the finest personal accounts to come out of World...