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...metaphysical puzzlers (See above) is pretty much restricted to the critics and the advance guard. The ordinary armchair Englishman is far more likely to prefer Geoffrey Cotterell. There are no great puzzles in Cotterell. A 31-year-old middle-class Englishman, Cotterell writes about other middle-class Englishmen in a manner designed to let the whole breed murmur to themselves: There but for the grace...
...vanity of human wishes, Cotterell's anatomy of melancholy goes only onionskin-deep. His American publishers hail him as the British John P. Marquand. It's too early for that comparison, but Cotterell is working the same kind of street and keeping a lot of Englishmen reading...
...skirling of the pipers has led Scotsmen into many a battle in many a faraway land. Last week kilted pipers led Scotsmen and Englishmen toward a new battlefield. From Hong Kong 1,500 men of the ist Battalion of the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders and the ist Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment boarded a British carrier for Korea in answer to General MacArthur's request for immediate ground reinforcements for his forces in Korea (TIME...
...home," said Mowrer, "[the reporter] had a deep sense of being where he belonged. Abroad . . . he is quite by himself, in a strange place of which he can never be really a part... To get to know [even Englishmen] takes about a year." Worse than the loneliness is the treatment of cable news at home: "[The correspondent] looks for his piece. It should have been on page one. He finds it on page sixteen. It appears rather short. That is because they have simply left out the key paragraph . . . Their editorials make him wonder if they even read his stuff...
Stuart neglected to sign The Skater, and Englishmen came to assume that one of their own great 18th Century portraitists must have painted it. In 1878 the picture was shown at London's Royal Academy, and a contemporary critic wrote: "A more graceful and manly figure was surely never painted by an English artist, and if Gainsborough were that artist this is unquestionably his masterpiece...