Word: harold
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...ROOM and A SLIGHT ACHE. Harold Pinter's opaque one-acters are skilled finger exercises on the theme of dread...
...House of Commons last week strode Edward Heath to launch his first parliamentary assault on the government as Britain's new Tory leader. It was something of a disappointment - a long and factual speech that even his supporters found some what on the dull side. Prime Minister Harold Wilson, who loves the cut-and-thrust of parliamentary debate, poured scorn on the Tories, dubbed Heath as "this Sir Galahad" who, he claimed, had deliberately misled the voters last year about the nation's economy...
...London last week, Prime Minister Harold Wilson's Labor government showed what a difference a few years-and the assumption of power and responsibility-make. Labor published a White Paper proposing new cutbacks on immigration from Commonwealth countries. Under the new measures, only 8,500 work vouchers will be issued annually, and they will go only to immigrants with special skills-doctors, teachers, graduates in science and technology. Shelved indefinitely would be the applications of some 300,000 persons on the immigration waiting list...
TALES FROM THE JAPANESE STORYTELLERS collected by Post Wheeler, edited by Harold G. Henderson. 139 pages. Juttle...
...years talking with the storytellers and collecting, translating and annotating their tales. His ten-volume work has never been made available to the general public largely because he refused to allow the publication of any edition that did not meet his exacting standards. Wheeler died in 1956, and Editor Harold Henderson (former Nipponologist at Columbia University) has now dipped into Wheeler's collection and selected 24 gracefully wrought, highly polished little gems. A favorite hero is the trickster figure, who appears in many guises (as a taciturn bumpkin, a crafty samurai, a modest wife, a voluptuous virgin) and unfailingly...