Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SEASONS. The collaboration of Director Fred Zinnemann, Screenwriter Robert Bolt and Actor Paul Scofield has produced one of the year's best films. The heart of the drama is a conflict of conscience, as Sir Thomas More, Chancellor of England, tries to find a way to serve both his King...
...England, that presents some problems. Though the earl can be divorced like any ordinary Briton, remarriage is another matter. Harewood comes under the Royal Marriages Act of 1772, which was rammed through Parliament by George III in an effort to stop his kin from keeping house with commoners. The act requires the sovereign's permission for any royal marriage; the punishment for ignoring it is to deny the title to the offender's wife and children...
...think that the technological revolution has been substituted for the class revolution--the old Marxist concept. I think that what petroleum did in America, and electricity--what coal did in England--can be done now by electronics and computers and other devices, provided we can use them properly and at the right time which is now and not tomorrow...
...easing of monetary restraints alone would lead to increased inflation, Blessing insisted that West Germany's federal, state and municipal governments curb their often lavish spending. Otherwise, he said, the country will wind up with "the same stop-and-go policy that has worked so badly in England...
Politics y. Art. Nicolson actually tells little that is new about the historic events. What he does provide is an eyewitness record of the era, as well as the passing of a time when everybody of consequence in England knew everybody else-and an unbelievably clubbable lot they were. Nicolson casually notes, for example, that he popped in on Anthony Eden at the time of the Sudetenland crisis and found Eden in despair but still unable to make up his mind about what he would do. Nicolson was horrified at Chamberlain's appeasement of Hitler, and he gives...