Word: englands
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...when London University Law Student Seretse Khama, young chief of Bechuanaland's Bamangwato tribe, wooed and won London Typist Ruth Williams. She was a white woman, which was bound to cause trouble among the natives. Quietly, Whitehall asked the couple to live out of sight in England. Politely they refused-and when they insisted on going home, the government banished them from Bechuanaland until 1956 when they and their children (now three sons, one daughter) were finally allowed to return. Britain may have long since swallowed its prejudice, but it took until last week to show its pride when...
Everyone agreed that it was a jolly good success, and Dr. Bowes, who hopes to release the recording through Britain's Decca record company if the quality is good enough, celebrated by buying a Rolls-Royce for $15,800 to "run around England in." Jack Greene-stone, the orchestra manager who arranged the session, was left nursing a new pent-up urge. Mused he: "I'll wager there are a lot of wealthy Americans who would like to conduct a symphony. It could become the new In Christmas present to give your friends -your own Beethoven...
Liberal Intervention. Speculating on what Keynes would have prescribed for the 1960s, Lekachman does not echo the fierce individualist from Cambridge, England, but the contemporary critic from Cambridge, Mass.-John Kenneth Galbraith. Faulting everything from "the looming menace of automation" to "the dubious or negative social value of advertising," Lekachman is angry with America's "frequently crude and crass material culture" and somehow concludes that the Great Society programs have "powerful tendencies to favor the prosperous...
...Duke of York (who later became King of England) and Thomas Hardy attended his wedding, and a cousin, who later became a bishop, performed the ceremony. The bride's father was the Duke of Devonshire and Governor General of Canada, and the tribe of Cavendishes was represented in all its complex consanguinity, unrivaled since the virtual disappearance of the Bourbons from Europe...
...modest way, the allegorical novels of Rex Warner have enjoyed a steady vogue in England since he began writing them there in the 1930s. This reissue of The Aerodrome, first published in England in 1941 and in America in 1947, will give readers in the U.S., where Warner has had no vogue, a chance to judge the publisher's claim that it is a "minor classic." It may not be a classic, but neither is it minor...