Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After chronicling the wonders of New York for English audiences for 30 years, Journalist Alistair Cooke is embarrassed to say that he no longer likes being in and about the city. "Now my apartment is a haven, a sanctuary against the city. New York is not manageable for the ordinary citizen living in it." He adds: "It's all right there in the last two volumes of Gibbon. All this opulence and comfort have led to sophistry. We're now hopelessly confused between privileges and rights. Nobody feels an obligation to the city any more. The only obligation...
...similar respect for the English weekend by the British authorities enabled Spy Donald Maclean to escape to the Soviet Union...
Scholars have reacted to Wilson's charges with something less than cool objectivity. "Edmund Wilson, who is to be admired and cherished for the things he can do, has made a fool of himself this time. He is very, very wrong," says Dr. Matthew Bruccoli, head of the English Department at Ohio State University, which is producing the M.L.A.'s Hawthorne edition. Twain Scholar Hen ry Nash Smith of the University of California at Berkeley complains that "Wilson paws and snorts like a bull moose. He seems to be saying that we should correct serious distortions, but doesn...
...Castroish band of guerrillas reconnoitering the French woods. Here, the on-camera death agonies of dumb animals provide a new twinge of horror. In the final scene, the wife is enthusiastically munching away on a hearty meal. "They mixed the pig with what was left of the English tourists," explains the leader of the guerrillas. "The ones from the Rolls?" she asks casually, with her mouth full. Another example of Go-dardian overkill...
This time there is only one person in the culdesac, a newly successful English movie star named Annabel Chris topher. Though neither pretty ("a peaky face and mousey hair") nor clever ("a deep core of stupidity that thrives on the absence of a looking-glass"), she projects well-bred sexiness on the screen. In the hands of Luigi Leopardi, a chimerical Roman director, she becomes "the English Lady-Tiger." The public image is painstakingly built up by the movie company, and inevitably it begins to seep into Annabel's psyche. Her husband Frederick, an intelligent, surly...