Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Plenty of students agree, even those most deeply involved. Philip Pendleton Ardery Jr., 20, a cum laude (English) Harvard senior who has resigned himself to going into the service ("When rape is inevitable, relax and enjoy it"), waxes cynical: "Students really have too good a deal. And with the tests, what you're doing is trying to decide what people have the right to die-and to do that on the basis of anything as arbitrary as intellect seems really wrong...
...Several times we asked when the announcement would come. A Buddhist Boy Scout told us in broken English to wait another five minutes. A man in a green uniform blandly assured us that it would deal with the reasons for the rebel fight against the Ky government. That hardly seemed worth summoning us to the pagoda, and it suddenly occurred to us that it might very well be a trap. If the rebels feared a government attack on Tinh Hoi, what better way to forestall it than by arranging the presence of three dozen foreign reporters inside the pagoda...
...opulent nude over the bar. But what came back after Prohibition was mixed drinking and the thick-carpeted, chromium-cold cocktail lounge. Now, in a reach to recapture some of the old clubby atmosphere, bar-and-grills across the U.S. are making a stab at introducing the English (or Irish or Scottish...
Instant Nostalgia. In most cases the results are decor-thin imitations, with euphonious Olde English names, a few Tiffany lamp shades, perhaps a portrait of Churchill or a boar's-bristle dart board that no one knows...
...Francisco's White Horse Taverne prides itself on being a faithful copy of the Edinburgh original. The Golden Bee in Colorado Springs' Broadmoor Hotel is not a copy; it's the real thing-a 150-year-old English pub that had been dismantled and shipped to New York, where the hotel's decorators found it gathering dust in a warehouse...