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...walks. The great houses where so much of the history was made, the letters that the history makers and their wives wrote, the diaries they kept, the gardens they planted, the poems they wrote, the music they loved-all this is part & parcel of the environment that the Englishman is at peace with, and whose value and savor Professor Rowse celebrates...
...criticism and abuse has been one of the most violent and sustained of the war years. . . . When the criticism comes from a nation that was practicing Cash-&-Carry during the Battle of Britain . . . it is not to be borne. . . . With every outburst of righteous indignation in America, the ordinary Englishman gets one degree more ready to believe that the only reliable helping hand is in Soviet Russia...
...Argentine?" "I certainly am. But out there they force me To be an Englishman...
Edward W. Franklin '47 will be featured in the title role of Owen Wingrave, a young Englishman with courage to defy his family's military and imperialistic ideals. Playing the feminine lead, the part of Owen's flancee, will be Miss Leslie Paul, Radcliffe '45, President of Idler...
Monsignor Knox retired from Oxford to a Shropshire convent (as chaplain) in 1939 to do his translating. He says he did not ask himself "How shall I make this foreigner talk English?" but "What would an Englishman have said to express this?" Hence he searched less for the right word than for the right turn of phrase. Like all modern translations, Knox's substitutes pedestrian clarity for the poetic imagery and sweep of the older versions...