Word: englishmen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...does the computer make sense out of the binary numbers represented by its open and closed switches? At the heart of the answer is the work of two other gifted Englishmen...
...epee division, Harvard used three swordsmen who had not fought on the varsity last year. Robert Tillman, Paul Eldrenkamp and Robert Kaplan all did their share, each winning against foes that included the two Englishmen who ran 1, 2 in the British under-20 military championships...
Unfortunately, London's two latest biographers and would-be revivalists-both Englishmen-take London the self-made intellectual almost as seriously as he took himself. Andrew Sinclair, an ex-Cambridge don, has written probably the fairest account of London's life. British understatement proves to be just what the subject requires. But when it comes to London's books, Sinclair labors. Prophets are fashionable these days, so he recommends that The Iron Heel be reread as a prediction of fascism and argues that London's inside-dog stories anticipate the behavioral theories of Konrad Lorenz...
...There was the titillating peek into the ways of conspicuous consumption: among other extravagances, the recipe for Georgina's four-tiered wedding cake calls for 16 pounds of currants. There was the history bulletin: Hudson snaps shut his newspaper (the time is 1930) and announces that two million Englishmen are unemployed. There was the subtle reminder that no servant is a heroine to her mistress: in an unusual fit of garrulity, Personal Maid Rose blurts out a childhood memory to Virginia Bellamy. Ever so slightly, the good lady's eyes begin to glaze over...
...your tastes run less to the classical than to carousing, check out John Roberts and Tony Barrand, who will perform April 23 at 8 p.m. at the Joy of Movement Center in Central Square. Roberts and Barrand, two madcap Englishmen who not surprisingly bill themselves as "two madcap Englishmen," play traditional English songs and ballads and tell traditional English stories and jokes. If you go, applaud and laugh at all the traditional pauses...