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...Purists complain that free tuition and redbrick expansion are debasing everything old and dear in English higher learning. "MORE will mean WORSE," wrote Novelist Amis recently. Expansionists reply that even the current boom in higher learning is dangerously smaller than that in any comparable country. Former Economist Editor Sir Geoffrey Crowther recently called Britain's backwardness "a formula for nation al decline," urged lowering degree standards to increase graduates. Most Britons are convinced that national survival depends on the future of the redbrick revolution-even if much British nostalgia still rests upon the ancient spires of Oxbridge...
...clutter of dead birds, he produced perhaps the most tasteless of all royal portraits. But it was not only his Victorian smugness that caused his failure. Said Critic Eric Newton in the Manchester Guardian: "He was not a good enough painter." He was, added the more acid Geoffrey Grigson of the Observer, "the Great Worst Painter (and Richest Painter) in the whole bad history of the Academy...
...idea of Communist-style unionism, and is trying to muscle in on union movements in Nigeria and other African countries. Another leftist at the top: Minister of Transport Krobo ("Crowbar") Edusei, who made a deal with Moscow for six Ilyushin airliners. Swirling uncertainly among the blacks is British Marxist Geoffrey Bing, who, as Nkrumah's Attorney General, designed the Preventive Detention Act under which more than 100 opposition politicians have been jailed without trial...
Among the departing junior members, Richard T. Gill '48 and Jaroslav Venek, both assistant professors, will be an leave next year; Werner Baer, head tutor, has accepted a position at Yale; Barbara R. Berman, instructor in Economics, has one to Washington; and Geoffrey B. Wainsworth, an instructor, will also be saving the staff. It has also been reported that two others of non-professorial rank may also leave...
...have never really believed I was Archbishop of Canterbury," began Dr. Geoffrey Fisher, 73, who has held the office since 1945, as he addressed his final meeting of the Anglican Assembly; "that is why I have enjoyed it as much as I have." Then, touched by the 40-minute eulogy-filled farewell of his colleagues, the retiring primate continued his uncommon burst of self-revelation: "I have asked myself once or twice lately what was my natural bent. I have no doubt at all: it is to look at each day for the evil of that day and have...