Word: morrises
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THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION RECONSIDERED by Richard B. Morris. 178 pages. Harper & Row. $5.
Columbia University's Richard Morris disputes the view of a good many historians that the American Revolution was merely a colonial struggle for independence. Morris sees the events of 1776-1783 as not only ending England's hegemony but also giving birth to a moral, social and intellectual...
WILLIAM MORRIS, HIS LIFE, WORK AND FRIENDS, by Philip Henderson. A biography of the 19th century English artist who excelled as a poet, philosopher, painter, architect, furniture designer and interior decorator.
Indeed, modern industrial England would be enough to make William Morris turn his face to his own wallpaper. The wallpaper itself, alas, would now be classed as high camp.
Morris dream was doomed by history. As Poet John Betjeman says of present-day England: