Word: nan
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...English Year, by Nan Fairbrother...
...Americans sat down and dealt with the Reds directly. The small U.S. party was headed by U. Alexis Johnson, Ambassador to Czechoslovakia (and former State Department adviser on the Korean war); the Chinese group was run by Wang Ping-nan, secretary general of the Peking delegation at Geneva...
...English Year, by Nan Fairbrother. An Englishwoman's beautifully written reflections on changing nature, growing children and the wonders of life in general (TIME, June...
Attic Images. This week an Englishwoman of 40 has done it, and done it in her first book. An English Year is the work of Nan Fairbrother, the mother of two boys, 11 and 12, wife of London Physician William McKenzie. It would be easy to say that her book is not about anything much, and in a way that would be right. During the war she spent three years on a farm in Buckinghamshire, while her husband was overseas with the R.A.F. From the attic of the 16th century house she could see London, 40 miles away, being destroyed...
...result is one of those leisurely English personal accounts that can fairly be set beside such classics as Naturalist Gilbert White's The Natural History of Selborne and Novelist George Gissing's The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft. Nan Fairbrother does not so much write as compose, in model sentences and paragraphs. She describes the natural world about her in fresh images, e.g., "The fir trees, seen from above, are as neat and composed as cats sitting by the fire in the circle of their tails." The change that has come over old rural England is made plain...