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...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...
Free trade was Jesus Christ. They formed their joint stock companies and combines, and could count on/triple rows of sheds, eight miles of granite docks,/calm and deep water in all tides at Liverpool...
Bolstered by its first victory, the alliance campaign caravan is moving on to the Liverpool suburb of Crosby, where Shirley Williams will stand in the next by-election later this winter. If Williams can win in another traditionally Tory constituency, the S.D.P. bandwagon may really begin to roll...
Only the Earl of Liverpool, who was then the British Prime Minister, can be blamed, however, for the failure to purchase Florida and the lands along the Gulf Coast, which the Spanish, hard up as always, put on the market for ?1 million in 1819. If Lord Liverpool had not been so foolishly parsimonious, that sun-favored peninsula would now be a law-abiding and God-fearing American province instead of the petty dictatorship it is, whose only exports are drugs, disease and depravity...
...party deferred the potentially divisive issue of choosing an official leader, but there was one surprising move: Williams will run for Parliament in an upcoming election in Crosby, a suburban Liverpool constituency that has sent Tories to Parliament since 1918. It will be an interesting test of the S.D.P.'s growing strength. Summed up Williams: "We have to take impossible risks...