Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...said that an Englishman is a gentle man with women and a pirate in business, and a Frenchman a gentleman in business and a pirate with women, to suggest that pi racy is the key to success. Albion is usually represented by an English gentleman who is one of the most delightful creatures the earth has ever seen, in sofar as it is a question of a hurt swallow or a round of golf, but as soon as it is a question of commerce, the mild gentleman may be come a terrible and stubborn clog...
...Britain had been "written off" by another American in 1940 - "the rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like an Englishman, but who happens to be a foreigner, voiced opinions which Englishmen only admit in the privacy of their clubs...
Almost Hypnotic. To symbolize the work's spirit of reconciliation, Britten had originally selected an Englishman and a German for the two male leads-English Tenor Peter Pears and German Baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau. But Fischer-Dieskau, who was so moved during the Coventry performance that he was barely able to sing some of his lines, had an attack of bronchitis and was forced to cancel in Germany. His part was taken by Austrian Baritone Walter Berry. The audience seemed almost hypnotized from the work's opening lines to Owen's closing "Let us sleep...
...have little respect for dukes. In this austere portrait, the trappings of glory are absent. Even the order of the Golden Fleece is hidden beneath the cloak, and the sharp-featured face is neither benign nor particularly heroic. Goya painted exactly what he saw: a cold and contemptuous Englishman who regarded the exuberance of the Spaniards as rather poor taste...
Behind all this retrenchment, the restraining hand of the British is visible. Says Henry R. Moore, vice chairman of London's Second Covent Garden Property Co., a director of Britain's Philip Hill group, and the Englishman in charge of keeping watch on Zeckendorf: "The program is to spend the next three to five years developing the property we now have. We have absolutely no intention of making any further purchases." Zeckendorf says he feels the same way. With the British holding a veto in Zeckendorf Property, he could hardly say otherwise. Besides, after all those years...