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...avoid the tedium of subtitles and the artificiality of dubbing. Ophuls uses a translator's technique. The speaker begins then is faded down, and his English "voice" translated with full inflection and character. Newsreels are sub-titled; so are the Englishmen. Anthony Eden is interviewed in both French and English. The subtitles help as a change in tempo, and besides, dubbing Lord Avon would be less charming than listening to his English-accented French...
...restored slave ship in a naval museum. As early as the eighteenth century the more sophisticated defenders of West Indian slavery were arguing that although slavery was an evil and, as such, to be condemned (in much the same way that the President today condemns Portuguese colonialism) Englishmen should nonetheless maintain slavery and continue to invest in sugar or "brown gold" (as Harvard now invests in oil, or "black gold") because thereby the savages of Africa could be led into the paths of Christianity and be ensured a level of living which was not only infinitely superior to that left...
Moonshining is as much a part of the national folklore as the covered wagon Although "moonshiner" originally meant Englishmen who ran brandy and gin along the North Sea coast toward the end of the 18th century, it came to have special application in America to the men who made illegal whisky-quite literally by the light of the moon. While their ranks have been decimated, a few moonshiners still ply their illicit trade in the deep recesses of Appalachia. Feeling rather like David Livingstone in search of the Nile's source. Correspondent William Friedman was blindfolded and led through...
...woes of the others seem somehow pathetic and finally enervating, partly because they are so deeply selfish. If nothing else, Miss Murdoch has pulled one new switch in this book by replacing the complacent American, so often a carefully drawn figure in British comedy, with a cast of smug Englishmen whose horizons have shrunk to little-England dimensions...
...Riddle of the Sands by Erskine Childers. 261 pages. Barre Press, Imprint Society. $35. Written in 1903, this is still the world's greatest sailing suspense tale. It makes the cruise of two Edwardian Englishmen in tidal waters around Germany as immediate and harrowing as last summer's cruise to Cuttyhunk. Any sailor who hasn't read the book should do so. Unhappily, this special edition is tarted up with Rorschach-like woodcut and wash color illustrations, thus sabotaging the realism of tidal charts, maps and seamanlike detail. Readers with unlimited budgets might consider tearing...