Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Olimpieri's arrival at Andover was engineered with the aid of the Committee of Religious Concern for Peace (the New England branch of the National Committee of Clergy and Laymen Concerned About Vietnam) and New England Resistance, whom Olimpieri had contacted before leaving his post...
...rest of the cast is, well, from England. Hopefully they had the foresight to buy excursion-fare plane tickets, because, to use the play's own idiom, thar' ain't no gold in these here hills...
Thus, Britain had little choice but to accept a lesser role in international finance. "The alternative might have been chaos," said Sir Leslie O'Brien, the governor of the Bank of England. "Our performance since devaluation has been disappointing, but I believe we will get it right. We have got to get it right...
...agony of alienation from both the real America and the real England, he opts for comforting myth. Just before making a deranged attack on Dr. Rabelais, he embraces those colored slides once and for all, even though he knows they are "terrible, terrible lies...
...then, Sheed was enrolled in Downside, a Benedictine prep school in England somewhat resembling Sopworth in The Blacking Factory. Eventually, he took a degree in history at Oxford, spent a year with his father's relatives in Sydney, Australia ("more eccentricity per square foot than anywhere"), and settled in Greenwich Village as a writer. His first novel, A Middle Class Education (1961), earned him a small reputation that has grown slowly but steadily. Last year his fourth novel, Office Politics, was nominated for a National Book Award. Now, at 37, he is justly rated as one of the nation...