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...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...
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...