Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Most of his decisions these days are somewhat less fateful. Harlech is now deciding, for example, just what sort of programming to give the 3.6 million television viewers in Wales and the west of England who are awaiting their first look at what the Harlech Television consortium has in store for them. Recruited a year ago by friends to join the venture and lend it his name, Harlech has invested $120,000 of his money and 80% of his working time into organizing the venture. When normal operations begin, he will commute between company headquarters in London and the twin...
...they draw up a new constitution that will severely limit his powers and make him a figurehead. Last week Deputy Premier Stylianos Pattakos told a Dutch journalist: "We aspire to have a monarchy in which the monarch has no political power-a modern King such as there is in England, Sweden and The Netherlands. A King standing apart and above political parties...
...last attempt to do him honor in England's Westminster Abbey ended in 1924 when the then dean, Dr. Herbert E. Ryle, snorted that "his openly dissolute life and licentious verse earned him a worldwide reputation for immorality." Yet in today's easygoing society, George Gordon Lord Byron seems less of a satyr than a swinger; so a group of Byron buffs led by Derek Parker, editor of the Poetry Review, and Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis have petitioned that he receive his proper niche in the abbey's Poets' Corner. Their word was good enough...
...merited an award. While it may pique national vanity, an esthetic dry spell is no novelty in the long history of drama. The sands of mediocrity have sometimes silted over the theater for 2,000 years-for example, between the titans of Greek tragedy and the genius of Elizabethan England. The lackluster quality of contemporary U.S. playwriting and the dearth of substantial new talent are simply a gap rather than an omen. The conventional and obvious scapegoat is Broadway, but this is pure fallacy: Broadway, with all its faults, has presented, honored and sustained every major U.S. playwright...
Baker, the wiry long-distance runner and cross country captain, became the first foreign student ever to win the Bingham award. His home is in Northfleet, England...