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...Characters and Their Landscapes, is no celebration of the romantic idyl. Blythe well knows the curse of the quaint. He understands the perversity as well as the sanity in the compulsion of an Englishman to pull on his boots and muck about on the meadows, heaths and chalky plains of his native land. With country realism the author allows that to "be a native once meant to be a born thrall." He also notes that "Robert Burns' object in publishing his poems was not to celebrate his oneness with the village of Mossgiel but to make enough money...
John Harvard, an Englishman converted to Puritanism, sailed to the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1637 to preach his belief. He died a year later "of a consumption" and left 400 books and $800 to a recently formed school in the American Cambridge...
...secret that the Swedish Academy's decisions have often been slanted toward geopolitical rather than literary concerns. This hedge against Western hegemony proved instructive; every so often the world had to confront an unknown writer of an obscure tongue. But the award to Golding, a comfortable Englishman with no extreme political opinions, must give pause even to the staunchest defenders of the Nobel experiment. Can those charged with making the awards tell quality when they see it? Golding is fine, to be sure, but not before Gordimer, Grass and Greene. And, in alphabetical order, not before Kobo Abe, Jorge...
...director-producer-actor-author, who is 81, was raised to be a wanderer; his mother was Welsh-Irish, and his father was an Alsatian Jew who was an international speculator. John Houseman spoke four languages as a child, was educated as a privileged Englishman, won an Oxford scholarship in modern languages, but went instead to Argentina to live among gauchos, returned to London, and learned the international grain trade. He was on the point of becoming wealthy as a grain speculator in the U.S. when the Crash of '29 bankrupted his company. His entry into the performing arts occurred...
...will be recreated Sept. 19 at Versailles. Meanwhile the Grand Palais is holding an aviation exhibition, with machines on loan from Washington and Moscow, through August. Hot-air flight is also the specialty of the 18th century Château Cezy, located 90 miles southwest of Paris. Its owner, Englishman Donald Porter, offers fearless vacationers ballooning in Burgundy, a four-day, three-night aerial adventure. Meals and wines are lavish, with matching prices: $1,700 a person for three nights. Guests who prefer water to air can join the château's six-person "gourmet barge," which costs...