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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Daniel J. Boorstin. Historian Boorstin bases his cultural history of the U.S. on what is home-grown American rather than what was modified from European life. The "booster" who followed the pioneer westward and developed the country is his hero; his villain the Southern planter, who borrowed all of English agrarian life and needed slaves to make it work...
Wafting out of Sikkim to settle her three stepchildren in English schools, Her fragile Highness Queen Hope Namgyal, 25, was in London when she learned of the Red Chinese threat to her tiny Himalayan kingdom. Hope was brave. "There is an old Tibetan prophecy which says that trouble in Sikkim would be as rare as a comet at midday," she said, "and also would be like the shadow of an eagle's wing." Besides, she added, "there is the Sikkim national guard to protect us"-fierce Sikkimese all, to be sure, but only 280 of them. The Queen flew...
...causing the renaissance? The English have a political rule of thumb that cricket fanciers are Tories, while soccer fans are Labor; in the field of music the distinctions are not as clear-cut. Opera fans are probably traditionalists, secretly perhaps even monarchists. They are probably less concerned with facts and figures than devotees of the symphony or solo instruments, who often glory in the mathematical aspects of music. Opera lovers are also apt to be more intellectual and less sentimental than ballet fans, who are satisfied with generally second-rate musical scores and graceful or athletic bodily gyrations...
...Madrid is a 90-minute documentary knit into a tragedy-the story of the Spanish people during the scarring years (1936-39) of the civil war. To make it, French Producer-Director Frédéric Rossif drew on English, French, Russian, German and U.S. newsreels, molding his material into an elegiac whole, a powerful work...
During a diplomatic reception in Manila some years ago, a guest with a tenuous grip on the English language grew more and more perplexed. Finally he turned to another guest. "Who," he asked, gesturing toward an obviously important U.S. official, "is this man they call Mr. Bastard right to his face...