Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified cliches and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...
...gates of Buckingham Palace will swing open one day this week for a taxi bearing a 9½-lb. tome that to many Englishmen-particularly those whose names do not figure in its 3,088 pages-seems as monumentally irrelevant to postwar Britain as the Domesday Book. To scholars, snobs, statusticians and society hostesses, nonetheless, the 103rd and fattest-ever edition of Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage is an invaluable, intriguing gazetteer to the proliferating aristocracy...
Texans & Tahitians. Some lineages in the latest edition are brutally brief. Lord Morrison of Lambeth, who was known to working-class Englishmen on Our 'Erbie when he was Deputy Prime Minister in Clement Attlee's Labor government, rates one sentence of genealogy: "His Lordship is son of the late Henry Morrison, police constable of Brixton, England." On the other hand, Burke's-which sends the Queen a free copy of the $32.34 book specially bound in her favorite blue goatskin-devotes 45 pages of minute type to the royal family's doings since the days...
Beyond the Fringe chips away at petrified people, calcified clichés, and sacrosanct cows with remarkable satiric finesse. Four young and infectiously funny Englishmen perform the iconoclastic surgery...
...rich, fainthearted Mr. Joseph Kennedy, Ambassador to the Court of St. James's in the days of Dunkirk." The Manchester Guardian was less imperious -and more candid: "A former American Secretary of State who looks like an Englishman, but who happens to be a foreigner, voiced opinions which Englishmen only admit in the privacy of their clubs...