Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paul Gauguin was: the middle-aged Paris stockbroker who callously turned his back on business and family, fled to Tahiti and became a great painter amid the palm trees and dusky native maids. Devoted Gauguinists have damned the Maugham novel (in which the thinly disguised Gauguin is actually an Englishman named Charles Strickland) as six-pennyworth of moonshine. But they have never managed to scotch it. They never will, because the tale is essentially true...
...your Dec. 20 article on those English bell ringers: those fellows may not have bats in their belfry but they sure have bells in their bathos. It plainly shows that you don't have to be crazy to be an Englishman, but that it sure helps...
...Indian can dine at Claridge's in London, but not in the "Europeans Only" restaurants of Nairobi. If there is segregation in Kenya's schools (which there is), if a Negro woman must shop through a hatch in the wall in Rhodesia (which she must), the decent Englishman at home hears about it in no village pub, worries over it in no angry parish meeting. It all happens several thousand miles away, and in another country...
...Foreign English. In both Highlands assistance and Lowlands development, British government money has contributed a massive share. But to the Scots, the government in London is still "the English government" and the Englishman a foreigner. Their finances and their fate are inextricably bound up with England, but, if only as a point of pub honor, Scots hate to admit it. They profess grave doubt that their 1707 union with England is a good thing. They bristle at small slights. It rankles that some English ministries call their Scotland representatives "Regional Controllers," that the Festival of Britain brochures chopped off Scotland...
Bloon, who made the opening speech in support of the negative, emphasized all the destruction that has been caused by "unreasonable men" throughout history. He listed as bad influences such men as Nietszche and Hitler and then went on to Senator McCarthy because, he explained, "for an Englishman to speak in America without mentioning McCarthy would be like presenting 'Hamlet' without a grave-digger...