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...poem is both about Hopkins' spiritual odyssey and an elegy for five Franciscan nuns who drowned when a German liner struck a sand bar off the Kentish Knock in November 1875. Enderby's film producers shift the story to pre-World War II Germany, add a (pre-vow) affair between one of the nuns and "Father Tom" Hopkins, and lavishly document the rape of the nuns by a congregation...
...Heath's female Doppelgänger. Although her garden party hats and porcelain-voweled laments over "the twilight of the middle class" belie it, Mrs. Thatcher shares Heath's relatively humble background-the one the daughter of a Lincolnshire grocer, the other the son of a Kentish carpenter. Both have been characterized as being almost frostily reserved and unassailably self-confident. Both owe their political rise to impressive performances as Tory spokesmen on financial affairs, Thatcher in the past few months, Heath in the early '60s. The difference, however-and some fear that it may prove...
Pressing its case, the N.U.J. has ordered typesetters and printers to "black," or refuse to print, stories by non-N.U.J. journalists. As a result, blank spaces have whitened the pages of the provincials, and publishers have been quick to retaliate. The Kentish Times summarily sacked 60 employees for "blacking" its non-N.U.J. local correspondents...
...Vita Sackville-West, the darkly handsome child of a great Kentish family, a minor poet and novelist (The Edwardians). He was Harold Nicolson, cherubic British diplomat, Member of Parliament, brilliant belletrist and historian (Making Peace, Some People). They were married in 1913 and stayed married for nearly half a century, inhabiting a succession of manors and gardens and picturesque ruins. Their union resulted in two gifted children and was for years regarded as the kind of enviable domestic alliance that survives long separation and divergent interests...
While the tunnel may well be the best possible way to maintain Britain's thrust into Europe, it will have its victims. Impassioned objections have come from the Kentish villages that will be most affected. Residents are justifiably worried that their green and pleasant countryside will turn into a nightmarish octopus of access roads and tracks leading to and from the tunnel terminus. Complained William Hunt, 46, of Newington: "We don't count. We're like a pea on top of a mountain. If they don't want us, they just flick us away...