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...passengers' stomachs for decades. Plans to demolish London's dark, satanic Euston Station have stirred protests that read as if the bulldozers were marching on Buckingham Palace. Britain's trains, in fact, are not markedly more uncertain, uncomfortable or unwashed than railways the world over, but Englishmen like to think they...
...encounter between cocky, yet questing youth and churchly authority caught unawares did much to explain why, among more than 27 million Englishmen baptized as Anglicans, fewer than 3,000,000 are registered as active churchgoers...
Paul Sandby (1725-1809) is commonly called "the father of British watercolor." While other artists favored foreign scenes, Sandby stuck close to home and thus won fame as the first artist "to introduce Englishmen to the beauties of their own country." In such paintings as Landscape, with Dragoons Galloping Along the Road, he keeps tight control of his watercolor, almost as if he were working in oil. Yet, though details are precisely recorded, the painting as a whole seems light and free. It was Sandby's gift that he could bathe the most ordinary scene in elegance...
...transformed into bigtime bingo parlors. "Fruit machines," as one-armed bandits are known in England, have blossomed even in its sacrosanct drinking clubs. Bookies, permitted to operate from betting offices for the first time since 1853, report that business is up from ten to 25%. But for well-heeled Englishmen, the law's most welcome provision is its restoration of chemin de fer* to the British scene...
Though many Englishmen piously insist that they have no racial problem, the government's bill is an admission, in the Spectator's words, that "the British people are no more resistant to color prejudice than the people of, say, Chicago.'' Though Britain has only 400,000 colored residents (less than 1% of the population), a recent survey reported that 90% of Englishmen interviewed believe that immigration should be restricted. Industrialists welcome the newcomers, since they are more mobile, industrious, and willing to "work dirty." Yet a widespread prejudice, expressed by Tory M.P. Sir Cyril Osborne...