Word: nottingham
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Scrabble & Swap. The hero is James Walker, 32, English novelist, Angry Young Man. Actually he is dim and aging, and resentfully married to a dowdy, motherly, working nurse. Life, as seen from a dull suburb of industrial Nottingham, makes him not angry so much as itching with vague discomfort, as does his hairy tweed suit, which "makes him look as if he had been rolled over by a sheep." He has chronic spiritual snuffles. His novels are about "sensitive provincial types who live far away from where things happen...
...when only 200,000 nonwhites were in the country, white ire, helped by a slight rise in unemployment, sparked race riots in Nottingham and London's Netting Hill and Paddington districts. Since then, there have been no major outbreaks, but the underlying resentment remains strong, and both political parties have been understandably wary of antagonizing the white 98% of the electorate. Labor violently opposed the Tories' 1962 Commonwealth Immigration Act, but reversed itself and last winter decided to extend the law. The Tories were only too glad to oppose last week's bill on the ground that...
...many Protestants, ancient divisions now seem so irrelevant, compared with the need for unity, that the churches of Britain, at a historic conference in Nottingham last September, could confidently set a target date for their organic union in 1980. Catholic-Protestant cooperation, the dream of prophetic scholars a decade ago, is becoming so firmly rooted in parish practice that there is neither surprise nor scandal when Roman Catholics join Episcopalians for a service at Cambridge's Christ Church to celebrate the first Sunday of Advent. Liturgy is also bringing the churches together, as Catholics switch to the vernacular...
...encourage Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's Conservatives in the outcome of 401 local borough elections. With 2,973 seats at stake, the Tories lost a total of 550; the Labor Party gained 544, winning control of local governments in such major cities as Leicester, Liverpool, Bradford, Bristol and Nottingham. Labor officials claimed that if a general election were held tomorrow, they would return to power with a margin of 90 to 130 seats...
...Common Market, but it reaches beyond the six countries that presently constitute it. Britain, while not yet a member, shares in the new affluence and in the ever-widening ways of life. A typical incident occurred a few years ago, when a Hollywood movie company went on location near Nottingham to film Sons and Lovers, D. H. Lawrence's somber novel about life in the sooty, poverty-ridden English Midlands. Before the scene could be made to look properly depressing for the camera, the film makers had to go from house to house, asking townspeople to take down their...