Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Twelve years later, Thomas Cook took his first batch of 130 English tourists to the then remote Swiss Alps. In 1872, a year before Jules Verne's book appeared, Cook arranged for a trip around the world that lasted 222 days. Cook's tours soon became a household word on several continents and continued to expand under Thomas Cook's son John, who took over...
...member of the Silent Generation that came of age in the '50s, Author Crews knows how to cool a hot issue. As a professor of English, he seems to side with Shakespeare: "Youth's a stuff will not endure...
Yalta to Yippies. Frederick Crews, 35, professor of English at Berkeley and author of such disparate books as The Sins of the Fathers: Hawthorne's Psychological Themes and the fluffy satire The Pooh Perplex, coaxes a respectable number of chuckles out of America's national preoccupation with youth. The Patch Commission, "a complete, uncensored transcript of the first day's proceedings of the Presidential Emergency Commission on Child Governance Priorities," describes an attempt by its three panel members to outline a "Realpediatrik" with which to save the nation from disaster...
Martin Luther accused him of playing God. An English observer saw him as an idler who wanted "only an apple and a fair wench to dally with." To one subject he was "a tyrant more cruel than Nero." When his wife Anne Boleyn was about to be beheaded by his executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...
...think the yellowy, ornamented, American cabs are hideous," Katz says, "a cab ride in England is still a respectable and enjoyable experience. The taxi is a pleasure to ride in, and the English cabbie is still very much the gentleman." Katz, a Cornell senior in engineering, is obviously interested in the quality of American life outside of the petty profit of a thousand dollars he's making on each...