Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Collected Letters of D. H Lawrence, edited by Harry T. Moore. A novelist and poet fabled for frankness and passion confirms his reputation in a fascinating collection of opinions on everything from lambs ("I loathe lambs") to fellow Englishmen...
Dark of the Moon isn't the kind of play you run across every day, especially around Harvard. Written in 1945 by two Englishmen, Howard Richardson and William Berney, Dark of the Moon is a rendition of "The Ballad of Barbara Allen," set in the Smoky Mountains. It is the tale of John the Witch Boy's painful struggle to become a human, and of his failure; and the characters are some of the seediest hill folk this side of Tobacco Road...
...passengers' stomachs for decades. Plans to demolish London's dark, satanic Euston Station have stirred protests that read as if the bulldozers were marching on Buckingham Palace. Britain's trains, in fact, are not markedly more uncertain, uncomfortable or unwashed than railways the world over, but Englishmen like to think they...
Nowhere to Nowhere. Hundreds of Englishmen exist for the sole purpose of keeping branch lines running, raising cash to rent doomed sections from Railway Boss Beeching, making weekend pilgrim ages to such officially abandoned routes as the Bluebell ("Nowhere to Nowhere") loop in Sussex. Despite a petition signed by 25,000 rail buffs, the Society for the Reinvigoration of Unremunerative Branch Lines in the United Kingdom (SRUBLUK) failed to keep open the scenic reach between Westerham and Dunton Green in Kent last October...
Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called "the father of British watercolor." While other artists favored foreign scenes, Sandby stuck close to home and thus won fame as the first artist "to introduce Englishmen to the beauties of their own country." In such paintings as Landscape, with Dragoons Galloping Along the Road, he keeps tight control of his watercolor, almost as if he were working in oil. Yet, though details are precisely recorded, the painting as a whole seems light and free. It was Sandby's gift that he could bathe the most ordinary scene in elegance...