Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Jacko's answer is apparently intended to represent the answer of the average working-class Englishman: "Lord knows I wish she wouldn't. But if the poor dear is all that set on ruining her life, I don't see how I can stop her. As I see it, we shall all have to button up and take the bitter with the better." The answer, though skillfully expounded by Actor Mills, is less than illuminating, and the film, as a discussion of the race problem in Britain, is less than memorable. But it is sincere and careful...
...Englishmen who knew it. suggests English Writer Paul Scott. India was not so much a political territory abandoned in 1947 as a continuing province of the heart-where seasons of love and hate are often slow to change. Exploring the life of one Englishman so smitten, Scott has turned out a strange novel, the kind of far-flung romantic British tale that might have been accused of Maughamism if its hero did not suffer so monumentally from an Oedipus complex. The lady in question is not his parent, who died when he was four, but Mother India...
...Carandente also wanted sculpture created expressly for Spoleto, and sought help from Italsider, Italy's state-controlled steelmaker. Italsider agreed to provide big ironworking shops for ten sculptors (three Americans, one Englishman, six Italians) -an invitation that appealed most of all to David Smith, one of the U.S.'s most active artist-welders...
...always tell an Englishman, it seems, if not by the way he speaks then, by his humor. And both the British accent and British humour were the featured performers at the first International Seminar Forum Wednesday night in Auditorium B of Alston Burr Hall...
Characteristically excellent were a couple of documentaries produced and directed by an Englishman named Denis Mitchell. In one, he took a deep, lingering look at a small town in Kentucky, neither interpreting nor judging, using no narration at all, but merely assembling a collection of vignettes-a pig being killed by rifle, a woman cooking on a wood stove, an old Negro in a Frank Lloyd Wright hat-that were enough to make any viewer feel that he had lived in that town for 35 years. The only voices belonged to the townspeople-talking about the practice of country...