Word: englishman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...acumen-in Hume's case, earned in the limited sphere of Ampleforth. There he has headed since 1963 a community of 130 scholastics, as well as a distinguished boarding school. While Heenan and most of the other bishops have been ethnic Irish, Hume is an upper-middle-class Englishman with useful Establishment connections. No bookworm, he is also a fitness buff devoted to jogging and squash...
...glory in claiming it has the worst. Those Americans who accentuate the negative recognize no statute of limitations on American sinning. "Every American in each generation, it appears," writes Henry Fairlie, "must regard himself as responsible for all that his society has done, does, and will do." While no Englishman feels any personal responsibility for the slave trading practiced by his ancestors, Anti-American Americans demand that their fellow countrymen feel guilty permanently about slavery and other transgressions of the past. Anti-Americans prefer role playing with inflated symbols -"Violence is as American as cherry pie"-to the rigors...
What's valuable about this new collection is the inclusion of ten letters (and one postcard) that were never published before, as well as substantive additions to 23 previously censored letters. Or maybe only partially valuable, because some of these letters would bore even the Englishman Haines from Ulysses...
Hutchison was built in taipan (big boss) style by Sir Douglas Clague, a 59-year-old Rhodesia-born Englishman. Under his aegis the company boosted profits from $3 million in 1969 to $27 million in 1973, mainly by buying up other companies at a headlong pace. To pay for them, it floated no fewer than ten stock issues in three years, ballooning the number of shares outstanding from 13 million in 1971 to 269 million in May of this year. Between mid-1973 and last December, however, a crash on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange and declining confidence in Hutchison...
What Kipling possessed, perhaps, was a vitality too restless to organize for a long, sustained effort. It was a vitality that amounted to genius: the ancient, powerful magnetism of the oral storyteller. Wearing the mask of a Union Jack Englishman, Kipling may have been more of a native than a colonial all along...