Word: englishness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Another area where the skinheads of The Pit resemble the English skinheads is social class. "We're all working-class oriented," says Modley, who works in Baby Watson...
Hall switched from playing 180 soccer games a year to seeing action in only two. And he went from the English high school system--where grades are based entirely on a final exam--to stacks of problem sets in Harvard's engineering program...
...psalters, hymnals and apocalypses gathered here attest to the sturdiness and independence of English artists' imaginations. They are a perfect visual equivalent to Chaucer, who installed English as a literary language in 1387 with The Canterbury Tales. The East Anglian manuscript style especially, in its whimsicality and odd narratives, its overflowing, obsessive love of natural forms -- leaves, flowers, birds, animals, combining and recombining -- is quite unlike the traditional formalities of French Gothic painting. It is both more earthy and more fantasticated. Some of it looks forward to the nature worship of the Romantics, centuries later. Some predicts writers like Edward...
...London "The Age of Chivalry" evokes regret at how much English Gothic art has been lost to history, and delight at what survives...
Rarely seen in public since his defection in 1963, Philby appeared on Latvian television to denounce Western interference in the Baltic. Speaking English with a Russian voice-over, he charged that the West uses Latvian nationalists to sow dissension. His words carry a certain authority. Philby headed British operations against Moscow's agents from 1944 to 1947. His performance, together with police action and counterdemonstrations by Communist Party loyalists, may have had its effect. Last week's demonstrations were desultory compared with protests earlier this year...