Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...volume, unhappily left out in the re-edition, were Auden's hit-or-miss photographs. Its principal treasure was and is his long poem, Letter to Lord Byron. Few poets since Byron have tried to crack the great romantic's seven-foot whip, and only Auden among Englishmen has succeeded, as here...
...still confession is a human want, So Englishmen must make theirs now by post...
...community. We need to consider the American community in all its devious and marvelous turns through history. We need, more still, to feel, to experience that history, as if it were truly our own. Of course, few Americans are really Americans, in the sense that Frenchmen are French, or Englishmen English: we just haven't been here that long, most of us. Still, we are now Americans, troubled mostly by the problems of America; and to relate fully to those problems we need to relate fully to their history as problems, even if we cannot relate ourselves to the country...
Wednesday, December 11 DOWN TO THE SEA IN SHIPS (NBC, 10-11 p.m.).- Burgess Meredith narrates this special about man against the sea. It includes wind-whipped scenes of a schooner rounding Cape Horn, the voyage of the replica of the Mayflower, and two Englishmen's crossing of the North Atlantic in a 20-ft. rowboat...
Even weirder, of course, was their uniform-an affront to starched red coat propriety from the tops of their bearskin hats to the tips of their famous diamond-patterned Argyll stockings. In fact, these fineries, plus the tartan kilt, so effectively kept Englishmen from signing on with the regiment that Britain's adjutant-general at one point ordered it to adopt a uniform less "objectionable to the natives of South Britain...