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...seem so foreign to many Americans -- the fact that people do not invariably mean what they say, that uncertain distances separate politeness from true feelings, and that everything is couched in a kind of code in which nuances are everything -- will hardly seem strange to a certain kind of Englishman...
...Oxford years, Trott sowed the seeds for friends' future misunderstandings of his character. MacDonogh points out that because Trott became so much of "an honorary Englishman" in his years at Oxford, his friends had trouble understanding his return to Germany in 1933 to work against the Nazi regime...
...latest Englishman to have a go is Paul McCartney, the erstwhile "cute" Beatle and Wings captain, whose quasi-autobiographical Liverpool Oratorio is soaring on the classical charts (Angel/EMI Classics has shipped 350,000 copies of the two-CD album worldwide). Commissioned for the 150th anniversary of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra and Choir, the 97-minute work for soloists, chorus and orchestra was first performed in McCartney's native city last July and recently got its U.S. premiere at New York City's Carnegie Hall...
...from "The Iron and the Radio Have Gone," makes her initial appearance wearing "a necklace of mosquito bites." An English schoolteacher who delights in being magnanimous and forgiving to the poor and sinful of Guyana, Summers is ludicrously shocked and sickened by the sight of a poor and sinful Englishman...
...good life and nature's bounty. Charles de Gaulle, father of the Fifth Republic, used to cite France's prodigious number of cheeses -- 265 by his reckoning -- as an example of the land's lavish variety. Some benighted souls across the Channel may still believe God is an Englishman, but the French have never doubted that heaven is their home...