Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Louis Heren, chief Washington correspondent for the Times of London, brings this geriatrics report up to date in a brisk spot checkup on the U.S. political system, loosely paralleling the classic study performed in The American Commonwealth (1888) by another sympathetic Englishman, Lord Bryce. Measured by the age of its continuous governing institutions, Heren judges the U.S. to be the second oldest country in the world; only Britain is its senior. Despite its perpetual self-image of newness, the country is really "a mature, almost ancient land...
...Speech of Money. Why did the slave-ship captains of Newport-so scrupulous that they took oaths not to gamble, drink or swear-have no scruples at all about their terrible profession? How could the almost offensively respectable Englishman. John Newton, who eventually switched from slave captain to clergyman, pack chained human beings into a suffocating hold as tightly as "books upon a shelf," and then retire to his well-appointed cabin to read the Bible and pray...
Founded in 1891 by two ambitious young engineers, Englishman Charles E. L. Brown and Bamberg-born Walter Boveri, the firm got going with a felicitous marriage. Boveri's father-in-law, a wealthy Zurich silk merchant, provided the partners with an initial $170,000 stake. But technology was B.B.C.'s real dowry. The firm built a pioneering standard-gauge electric locomotive in 1899, rolled a long way with the expansion of European railroads, and soon began turning out early designs in circuit breakers, turbines and other heavy gear. And while its labs now work on cryogenics, lasers...
This heavy-set, faintly ruddy Englishman has two professional causes. One is helping to boost the poor nations out of poverty. The other is simply, naively, to eliminate violence, now and in the future...
...pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered...