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...oscillated in the Atlantic. Malcolm Bradbury's Stepping Westward is the latest fictional flotsam on this tide. It is a pointed little farce, and as cultural anthropology it offers a thoughtful thesis to such British and American minds as can rise above the trousers-pants hassle. The Englishman in the U.S., it demonstrates, is no longer a comic figure known for his arrogance, social pretension, accent or what not. He is a switched-off, not-with-it fellow whose vague uncertainties about the liberal vision of life reflect the diminished horizons of the once Empire, and whose ineptitude...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Unlucky Jim | 6/3/1966 | See Source »

Kivukoni turned out to be a most exciting institution. The staff was an international mixture consisting of the principal, a Canadian who taught world affairs and cooperatives, a refugee from South Africa who taught economics, an Englishman who taught political science, and the West German...

Author: By Peter Evans, | Title: 'Nation Building' Dominates College | 5/5/1966 | See Source »

...They have mini-packages of mini-cigarettes, minicars, miniskirts, even mini-turkeys. But your article was a queen-size mini-haha. Not to worry. As one Englishman remarked, "At least our American friends still love...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 29, 1966 | 4/29/1966 | See Source »

That one event is the 440-yard intermediate hurdles, in which Captain Tony Lynch dominates all Eastern competition--with the possible exception of B.U.'s Dave Hemery, a sophomore Englishman who won the IC4A indoor 60-yard high hurdles. Until he faces Hemery in the Greater Boston meet, however, Lynch should breeze past all his competition...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Host Brown in Outdoor Open | 4/16/1966 | See Source »

...Baker, the sophomore Englishman who set a freshman record with a 4:12.0 last year, heads the mile contingent, with Smith, Dave Allen, Ran Langenbach, and Dick Howe making it a deep event for the Crimson...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Trackmen Host Brown in Outdoor Open | 4/16/1966 | See Source »

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