Word: lilliput
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...deeper purpose is to fathom the psyches of seven stolen children whose innocence is only skin deep. Blood kin to the tykes in Henry James's Turn of the Screw or William Golding's Lord of the Flies, they are remote, ritualistic, amoral-natives of a savage Lilliput that adults invade at their own risk...
...GATT) denounced as "inconsistent" the 15% surtax Britain had placed on imports in an effort to right the out-of-joint balance of trade, and demanded that it be removed. Says Sir Leon Bagrit, the chairman of Elliott-Automation Ltd.: "The British economy is a little like Gulliver in Lilliput, when he could not move because of hundreds of cords holding him back...
...their works, survives as a charmingly fantastic just-out-of-the-nursery tale that has delighted generations of the little Yahoos he detested. Satirist Swift would, however, hardly be amused by this film, which with commerce aforethought, scissors his plot and ruthlessly modernizes his ironic allegory of Lilliput and Brobdingnag into a monster movie freckled with psychiatric footnotes. But the dean is dead, and the little Yahoos will love...
...nations to discover the mixed blessings of the age of the Common Motorist. Even yet. there is only one six-lane British superhighway-the London-to-Birmingham M1. And in traffic-congested London, a race between a sports car and a sedan chair staged last week by the magazine Lilliput ended in a win for the sedan chair...