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...pouch. Avoiding today's exhaustive and exhausting travel writing, this volume combines 18th century illustrations with prose from the past. The travelers' tales date from the period when English was at its best and travel did not exclude wonder, awe, respect-and suspicion. "The first thing an Englishman does on going abroad is to find fault with what is French, because it is not English," says William Hazlitt. On the other hand, in his splendidly evocative preface, the very contemporary prose stylist Anthony Burgess asserts: "In the most enlightened phases of Northern history, no man could be considered...
...trousers, far too many of them. Then there are the social inferiors: "commerce" men. Until the class system is removed from business, the worker will continue to meet management with a built-in grudge, and commerce will not attract the level of businessmen that it needs. As an itinerant Englishman, I find the North American system far healthier. R. SANDERSON Montreal...
...gangster's moll hasn't got a great deal of voice, but she uses her limitations to good comic effect when she sings, and when she dances she doesn't have any limitations. There's also one solid comic performance, by Richard Rockefeller, who plays the broad Englishman like he should never play anything else...
...with his aggressive coaching methods (Runner: "What can I do to run faster Coach? McCurdy, "Run faster") and unusual meet style (He dresses in sweat clothes and races madly around the course shouting strategy and encouragement), most of the runners give equal credit to the leadership of the captain, Englishman Jim Baker...
...wiry Englishman Baker jumped to his usual early lead--covering the first mile in 4:30--and at the mile and one quarter mark he held a ten yard advantage over Columbia's Gary Rosenberg, Shorter, Princeton's Al Andreini and Hardin. A half mile later, Hardin had moved up to second, but McCurdy wasn't overly cheerful about the team's chances...