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Battling Indifference. Michael Cantuar heads a church that some think is almost illusory despite its established position. Although 27 million Englishmen are baptized as Anglicans, fewer than 10 million are confirmed members, and only 3,000,000 are regular communicants. The church is short on priests and short on reform, and after 15 months at Lambeth Palace, Ramsey does not underestimate the seriousness of the plight...
Beyond the Fringe is, loosely, a sort of relaxed review, and it is the work of four inventive young Englishmen, two of them Oxford graduates, two from Cambridge, all of whom are no older than twenty-eight. The four are Alan Bennett, Peter Cook, Jonathan Miller and Dudley Moore, and they have devised a series of satiric sketches--which they themselves perform--that razz the bejesus out of the Establishment, the Church, coal miners, pansies, the London Transport Board, Ludwig Beethoven, African nationalists, the Bomb, Harold Macmillan, World War II, William Shakespeare, and sundry other subjects of similar import...
While a graduate student, Conway won the University's Jay Prize, given annually for the best work on British or American institutions. He won the prize for his doctoral dissertation on the group of pre-World War I Englishmen who first shaped the idea of the modern Commonwealth...
With so many Englishmen eager to rent, more than a hundred companies have gone into television rentals. But because sets turn no profit until they have been rented for at least a year, large capital is required and 90% of the business is handled by six big firms. Largest of all is the pioneer in the field, Radio Rentals Ltd. Founded 32 years ago by Chairman Percy Perring-Thoms as a one-shop operation renting radios for 35? a week, Radio Rentals expanded into television just before World War II. Today the company has 750,000 subscribers and 310 sales...
...Englishmen who knew it. suggests English Writer Paul Scott. India was not so much a political territory abandoned in 1947 as a continuing province of the heart-where seasons of love and hate are often slow to change. Exploring the life of one Englishman so smitten, Scott has turned out a strange novel, the kind of far-flung romantic British tale that might have been accused of Maughamism if its hero did not suffer so monumentally from an Oedipus complex. The lady in question is not his parent, who died when he was four, but Mother India...