Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Although, as some of Prime Minister Macmillan's detractors have observed, a fine, un-English summer and the news of an impending addition to the royal family have conspired to help the Conservatives, there remain sound reasons for Macmillan's success. The first is prosperity. With full employment, a stable pound, lowered taxes, increased social services and the healthiest export-import situation in this century, most of England is enjoying unprecedented prosperity. Another helpful issue was foreign affairs. Despite the electoral liability, especially in Scotland, of recent abuses of power in Kenya and Nyasaland, Macmillan's leadership in trying...
Night & Day. Oscar figures that interesting stripers bite mainly at night near high tide. By day, the sight of seagulls gliding over the water at close to stalling speed told him that schools of feeding fish (silversides, English herring, mullet) were boiling along the surface, and that stripers might be right behind. At no time did Oscar go more than ankle deep into the surf-believing, with his kind, that it is sinful for man to disturb the striper's water. He scorns newfangled reels that would lessen the challenge...
...Devil's Advocate is Monsignor Blaise Meredith, a dry, self-contained English priest whose sense of vocation has been all but choked under the dust of years in Vatican offices. As he sees himself, he is one of God's empty vessels, a decent man barren of human warmth and love. Furthermore, he is dying of cancer, and the thought panics him: "It was his profession to prepare other men for death; it shocked him to be so unready...
...Nerone. There is Nerone's mistress who bore his bastard son and who nightly kneels before his bloody, bullet-torn shirt. The boy, now a troubled adolescent, is himself the prey in a vicious, sensual tug of war between a neurotic drug-taking contessa and a homosexual English painter. Without Author West's innate good taste, these characters might be merely sordid and sensational; he keeps them in the perspective of human frailty and suffering. As Meredith probes on, the proofs of Nerone's possible sainthood mount-his conversion and surrender to God, his healing miracles...
...father. At 19 she wrote one of the great horror stories of all time, Frankenstein. For eight years the young couple-married after the suicide of the poet's first wife-skittered across France, Switzerland and Italy, keeping company with the brightest minds and most advanced spirits of English letters. When the poet, Percy Bysshe Shelley, died in a storm at sea at 29, his friends held a cremation ceremony on the beach, and one of them snatched the young heart from the flames. His widow, Mary, then 25, devoted her remaining years to the poet's memory...