Word: liverpool
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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EVER SINCE THE DAY Washington Irving disembarked in Liverpool to sketch the English countryside. American writers have ventured to foreign locales in search of a sensibility they have felt they could only capture abroad. Henry Adams and Ezra Pound. Ernest Hemingway and F. Scott Fitzgerald all passed their moments in Europe against the backdrop of a culture that far overshadowed their...
Kathleen Spitzer Liverpool...
...months when John Paul goes to England, the first visit ever by a Pope. With news of the reunion proposals having leaked, there are already signs of resistance. Last week Archbishop of Canterbury Runcie was forced to abandon a speech on Catholic relations when 150 members of the Liverpool congregation he was addressing staged a noisy protest...
...popular former Education Minister in the Labor Cabinet of Prime Minister James Callaghan, Williams scored her victory in a by-election in Crosby, a backwater suburb of Liverpool that had sent Tories to Westminster since 1918. In the last election, the Tories' victory margin was 19,000 votes. Williams not only won by 5,000 votes; she captured 49.1% of the tally, compared with 39.8% for the Tories and 9.5% for Labor. Proclaimed London's Daily Mirror with unabashed admiration: "Shirley the First...
...Arts Council's greatest achievements, he says, was the creation of an educational roadshow to bring opera and theatre--as well as post-performance discussions and workshops for students and townspeople--to provincial towns. "We've had dance companies go into the toughest parts of Liverpool--where the riots were--and dance with the kids in the schools and convince them that dance isn't a sissy occupation but one that requires remarkable physical skill and agility. And they actually got very tough boys interested in doing it, and in wanting to come...