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Brilliant & Bitter. Vengalil Krishnan Krishna Menon, 57, is an Indian who has lived more than half his life as an Englishman; a Western-trained intellectual who distrusts and hates the West; a passionate foe of old-style imperialism whose histrionic talents and glib tongue more often than not give aid to the new imperialism of Communism. He ostentatiously preaches humility and tolerance, but some of his colleagues call him "The Great I Am," and secretaries dissolve in tears when he flies into a thunderous rage and calls them insulting names. A brilliant, bitter, unsatisfied man, he wears expensive Savile...
WITH Hawthorne the exploration of Americanness, as something mysteriously different from any other national quality, is well under way . . . Its existence conditions the whole of American literature . . . The Englishman takes his Englishness for granted; the Frenchman does not constantly have to be looking over his shoulder to see if his Frenchness is still there. The difference is simple . . . being an American is not something to be inherited so much as something to be achieved. This is the complex fate; and the history of the United States has been such that for each succeeding generation it has meant a beginning again...
...clambering from rock to rock. Seventeen pages later, he has rescued the famous English climber, Captain Winter, and even Rudi's Uncle Franz must admit this is an auspicious beginning; in his 20 years as a professional guide, Franz grumbles, "for me, there has never been a rich Englishman waiting in a crevasse." Before the reader can say "Grüss Gott!" the three of them are belaying their way toward the summit, along with a tepid villain whom Rudi also rescues, for good measure. By the author of The White Tower and aimed at the schoolboy trade, this...
Duel in the Jungle (Warners) need never have happened if somebody at Warners had spoken to his wife about it first. The story concerns a wealthy Englishman named Henderson (David Farrar) who is squandering his substance in an attempt to develop some offshore diamond fields. But as every bride knows, there is no point whatsoever in developing new diamond fields. Those at Kimberley, South Africa, more than supply the world with engagement rings...
Anyway, the Englishman takes out a $2,000,000 insurance policy, and a few days later is drowned at sea. Or was he? The insurance company sends Dana Andrews to investigate. Dana's way is barred by large numbers of hostile fauna - cobras, stuffed leopards, baboons, Jeanne Grain, elephants, hippos - but he comes through grandly, with nothing more than a case of explorer's knee, to the climactic "Mr. Henderson, I presume...