Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prosody is still somewhat imitative, and his rhymes are occasionally a little flat. Nonetheless, McCarthy must be reckoned a talented poet. Like Benjamin Disraeli, who titillated England with a long series of romantic novels, his art takes added interest from his position. And like Disraeli, who continued to write fiction even while he was Prime Minister, a President McCarthy might find that power would necessarily lead him into...
Shattered Remains. One of many German scientists interned by the Allies, Hahn heard the news of the atomic bomb in England. Normally a man of dry, underplayed wit, he became so depressed by the appalling application of fission that his colleagues feared that he might commit suicide. Once back in Germany, Hahn struggled to rebuild the shattered remains of his old institute as president of its successor, the Max Planck Society. He also became an outspoken foe of atomic weapons. In 1957, joining the 17 other prominent West German scientists in the Göttingen Manifesto, he vowed never...
...declared: "It is disappointing that the initiative taken in 1963 to re-examine the traditional Roman Catholic position on family planning seems to have ended up approximately where it began." At the worldwide Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops, the Rt. Rev. I. R. Moorman of Ripon, a Church of England observer at Vatican II, called the encyclical "ecumenically, a disaster for Christianity...
During the 30's, newly-independent Czechoslovakia turned her face westward as well; to meet the Fascist threat she signed mutual defense pacts with England and France. Then Munich happened, in 1938, and once again Russia became the only recourse. Russian troops liberated Papousek's nation in 1945, and three years later the Czechs democratically elected a communist president...
...came up with the idea last summer while working in London for the summer. Katz had always admired the aristocratic lines of the London hacks, but it wasn't until late last summer when he had a few weeks to go camping in the north of England that he had the time and the money...