Word: englishmen
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...extreme repugnance of the typical reader to Hitler is of course exploited in Russell's illustration. Yet one must separate the good effects of a belief from the goodness or evil of the entity described. During the bombing of London, few Englishmen could have applauded the existence of Hitler. If the War Office had chosen not to believe that Hitler existed, how- ever, the counter-attack against Germany would have been seriously hampered. To discover whether the effects of believing in the existence of anything are good, one must consider the consequences of disbelief. Blithe disbelief in Hitler would have...
...trouble lay in the rigidity of their principles. Educated Englishmen, Whig or Tory, believed in laissez faire, the classic economic theory of a free economy. But this mercantile theory led to absurdities when applied to Ireland's pre-mercantile economy. "The fanatical faith ... in the operation of natural causes," says Woodham-Smith, "was carried to such a length that in the midst of one of the major famines of history, the government was perpetually nervous of being too good to Ireland and of corrupting the Irish people by kindness, and so stifling the virtues of self-reliance and industry...
...five menservants; middle-class ladies in their 90s could boast that they had never made a pot of tea in their lives, a wealthy Englishman had a Frenchman to stir his soup, another Frenchman to comb his hair, an Italian to make his pastry, and half a dozen Englishmen to iron his Times, and his wife had a Frenchwoman to powder her back and an Englishman to carry her prayer book...
When the Bank of England issued a newly designed ?5 note last week, tradition-minded Englishmen were horrified to find that the 1963 model Britannia looks more like Miss Blackpool than the dumpy dowager who has traditionally ruled the waves from the nation's coins and bank notes. Stripped of her Roman helmet and a good deal of her heft, the pert new Britannia has a becoming shoulder-length hairdo to replace the sausage curls she has worn since Victorian times, even sports a toga that looks as if it had been designed by Emilio Pucci rather than...
Pleasures of Parliaments. In his greatest work, Namier demolished the long-accepted interpretation of 18th century English politics. Englishmen had been taught that the noble heroes of Parliament had battled wicked King George III to preserve English liberties. Namier sifted speeches of the period, records, diaries and letters. When he was stumped by the character of a Parliamentarian, he consulted a psychoanalyst. He finally gathered all his biographical sketches into two massive volumes, The Structure of Politics at the Accession of George III and England in the Age of the American Revolution, which proved that there had been no ideological...