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Lewis Galantiere, translated Antigone from Anouilt's French into English...
...English Catholics had winced when the 1944 Education Act was passed. Under its provisions for new schools, better buildings and an extra year of compulsory education (to age 15), the total cost for Catholics was estimated at ?10 million-over & above the regular taxes paid to support government schools. Catholic bishops duly informed education officials that they could not pick up so big a burden. Since then, soaring building costs and various other factors have upped the original estimates to somewhere between ?50 and ?60 million...
...Britain, the offer kicked up less excitement than such a proposal would make in the U.S. Since 1944 many English and Welsh church schools, Catholic and non-Catholic, have been receiving government financial aid, to keep them up to the standards prescribed by the Ministry of Education in its campaign to improve primary education. In Scotland since 1918, Roman Catholic schools have been sold or leased to the government, and have been operating under a teaching agreement like the new proposal of England's bishops...
...irascible bohemian lost no time in arguing with his publisher (over money) and severing connections. He supported himself by teaching English in provincial schools (and later by lecturing on English literature at the Imperial University in Tokyo), married a Japanese girl and became a citizen. Besides his wife and their four children, he supported his wife's entire family, found himself so busy he had little time to complain about life anymore. He taught all day, wrote most of the night. His subject for his last 14 years: Japan...
Among the permanent members of the Salzburg staff is the executive director, John Finch, professor of English at Dartmouth. Most of the permanent members of the staff are Harvard men, although many of the professors who do the actual teaching at the Seminar come from other colleges...