Word: longford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...built a circulation of 6,500,000 by emphasizing the news of the bedroom. Britons who do not like News of the World ignore it -or pretend to. But its regurgitation of the Profumo affair is provoking outraged cries of "journalistic exhumation" and "cashing in on pornography." Lord Longford, former leader of the House of Lords, protested that "Jack Profumo has reclaimed his reputation so totally . . . it is quite revolting that some stale old stories are being published." Last week, as the clamor intensified, a government watchdog agency banned a television commercial promoting the series on grounds that the memoirs...
...with caustic cries of "Hear, hear!", hoots of laughter and shouts of "Resign, resign!" Distrustful financial analysts doubted that spending had been reduced enough to stiffen the pound, and Laborites were bitterly resentful of the domestic curbs. For all the pained outcries, however, only one Cabinet member resigned-Lord Longford, leader of the House of Lords. The rest of the Cabinet, including some who had been expected to leave, stayed on with the justification that no single Cabinet department had been singled out to bear the brunt of austerity. But it was a sullen Commons that gave Wilson, drained...
...Lewis, in its own way an equally special and rather Proustian account of an imaginative, ultimately ravaged figure in U.S. history. For those who remain fascinated by Dylan Thomas, Constantine FitzGibbon retold the life of the doomed Welshman, warts, work, women and booze. In a more sedate mood, Lady Longford, in her Queen Victoria: Born to Succeed, presented the best biographical portrait of the Queen and her age since Strachey...
...Queen Victoria, Longford...
...Queen Victoria, Longford...