Word: lorde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...JOURNAL. "Never a Backward Step." Documentary on Lord Thomson, whose press empire comprises 149 papers in Great Britain, Canada and the U.S. Thomson discusses the press with Media Medium Marshall McLuhan and conducts an interview with Stalinist Antonin Novotny while he was President of Czechoslovakia...
...criticized books were ultimately banned. Among other works most frequently railed against, according to the N.E.A. hate list: Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, Orwell's 1984, Huxley's Brave New World, Griffin's Black Like Me, and Golding's Lord of the Flies...
...Horse. Though he tried, Nicolson, the aristocratic son of an English lord, never quite came to terms with either men or movements that he found wholly alien to his upbringing. Partly because he convinced himself that he was at least a "cerebral" socialist, but mostly because he had been half-promised a peerage, he bolted the Conservative Party in 1948 and stood for Parliament as a Labor candidate in working-class North Croydon...
...reading the great play and imagining a magnificant trumpet fanfare heralding the fight between Hector and Ajax, a sound interpreted in this production by a sickly goathorn whining offstage. Every time it sounded one expected a character from a P.G. Wodehouse musical to emerge saying "Your car is ready, Lord Wooster," or something. But that brings up a whole category of fun things you can do with Shakespeare, and we'd better let well enough alone...
...masters, the two forces almost crush Enderby, who is too blind to differentiate between them. But Enderby withstands the buffets of circumstance and wins by doggedly avoiding every intrusion of reality. The author attempts to compensate for Enderby's isolationism by stressing his integrity--Enderby is loyal to the lord he has chosen, his own neurosis-ridden mind and body. He serves them without question and by some automatic leveling process molds the outside world to a non-threatening mass of only occasionally active stimuli...