Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PORTRAIT OF A QUEEN. Victoria stands out like a jewel in the long line of English crowns, and these successfully dramatized excerpts from journals and documents exhibit the many facets of a complex woman and revered ruler. Dorothy Tutin, James Cossins and Dennis King bring historical figures to stirring stage life...
...English, Frost...
...collective impulse to thievery was relieved in some cases by capitalistic opportunism. An English correspondent, cruising the throbbing Washington ghetto, found that his car was low on gas and that there were virtually no filling stations open. Finally, spotting one that was, he asked to have his tank filled. The Negro attendant accepted $4.80 for the gas plus a $2 tip, and when told by the thankful journalist that he would be back soon, replied: "I won't be here. I just saw this station empty and figured I'd make a little money." How much? "About...
...crisscrossed the area's four territories-Kenya, Uganda, Tanganyika and Zanzibar (merged into Tanzania in 1964)-bringing air service to such remote spots as Lake Victoria and Kilimanjaro. When it ventured overseas in 1957 with DC-4 flights to London and Bombay, E.A.A. happily discovered that traffic in English civil servants and schoolboys could make up the losses on domestic flights. Going intercontinental for keeps, it boldly spent $6,000,000, or double its assets, to buy two Comets. E.A.A. soon had the planes paying handsomely by flying them 14 hours...
Returning to the English Department after a year away will be Morton W. Bloomfield and John M. Bullit '43, professors of English, James Craig LaDriere, professor of Comparative Literature, and John L. Sweeney, curator of the Farnsworth and Poetry Rooms. Bloomfield will take over as head of the department...