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...Spanish conquistador Antonio de Berrio, Trinidad was a staging point for futile Orinoco expeditions in search of El Dorado, the mythical city of gold. To Berrio's English rival, Sir Walter Raleigh, Trinidad was to be the beginning of a South American empire, where Indians and true-born Englishmen would unite to destroy the power of Spain. In his excessively romantic chronicle, The Discovery of the Large, Rich and Beautiful Empire of Guiana, Raleigh describes an Arcadia whose wealth and spaciousness would give new dimension to Renaissance European...
...Justice Douglas' Points of Rebellion is comparable to the writings of Burke, Hume and Locke-Englishmen who brought attention to the need for reform. Britain ignored the pleas and warnings, and the American Revolution resulted. I teach history and sometimes think it is a waste of time. Instead of learning from past mistakes, we repeat them...
...Woodstock festival. In those days, working with an instrumental quartet called the Grease Band, Cocker had the habit of taking light rock, such as softer ditties by the Beatles, and giving it the heavy treatment. Now Joe has a large new group (36 friends known as Mad Dogs and Englishmen). It can back him up in anything from jazz to low-down blues to gospel singing. Gruff and virile of tone, but now obviously a star, Joe belts out his songs as to the manna born. He knows just when to shout, just when to pout, just when...
...half-time show was under way at the Super Bowl, and the high-stepping Southern University band was presenting a thunderous reprise of the 1815 Battle of New Orleans. Then, as the announcer intoned "1,300 Englishmen died here," an irate football fan was heard to jeer, "Yeah, and one Greek...
Julian Mitchell's tricky new novel is about two sensitive, well-educated Englishmen who have widely varying difficulties trying to establish diplomatic relations with their demons and angels. For Charles Humphries, the attempt results in apathy and a self-destructive critical reflex. For Charles' oldest and dearest friend, the process produces The Undiscovered Country itself. The narrator of the novel is not only called Julian Mitchell but bears his real-life social, academic and professional credentials as well...