Word: oxford
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Selfridges Oxford Street store, 48 interpreters struggled to cope with the crush of Continentals snapping up fashion garments, bedding, appliances, children's and men's wear. British European Airways put on extra flights, and Air France switched from 90-seat Caravelles to 180-seat Boeing 707 jets to help carry the bargain hunters. Harrods, the elegant Knightsbridge store, experienced a run on "everything English"-Liberty prints, fabrics, scarves, china and glass. Said Managing Director Alfred Spence: "We have known nothing like it in 50 years. Sales...
Future-Fan. That maiden attempt, though not terribly encouraging, was an echo from three decades ago, when Day-Lewis and the rest of the famous Oxford circle (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Stephen Spender) rumbled with even louder social comment. Like other "horizon-addicts and future-fans" of his time, Day-Lewis, in rebellion against his strict curate father, flirted briefly with Communism; he now recalls his stint as a party educator as "a signal instance of the blind leading the shortsighted." Protest verse did not sell, however, until a chance compliment from T. E. Lawrence was printed...
...residence." For the benefit of those who accept the theory, he cites Roche's law: "Those who can conspire haven't got the time; those who do conspire haven't got the talent." Last week, in a letter to the London Times Literary Supplement congratulating Oxford Don John Sparrow for his incisive, 18,000-word defense of the Warren Commission Report (TIME, Dec. 22), Roche raised a point that has been overlooked-or ignored-by the report's myriad critics...
Last week Cecil Day-Lewis, 63, a former Oxford professor known to the public as much for his 19 competent whodunits (under his pseudonym, Nicholas Blake) as for his poetry, became Britain's 18th poet laureate. And who knows? The pen of a still vigorous, thoughtful contemporary could turn a new page in Britain's national poetry-or scratch its final, deadening quatrain. The rangy, resonant-voiced Day-Lewis (who has only lately begun hyphenating his two surnames), seemed determined to broaden the scope of his office...
Radio Appreciation. With his college savings of $500, Gould went to England in 1930 for four months to study literature at Oxford; the Depression forced him to return home and find work. After a year of boredom as a telephone-company traffic manager, he accepted a job teaching English at a Hartford high school. To make ends meet, he took a summer job as an announcer, producer and scriptwriter for Hartford's radio station WTHT, then organized a radio-appreciation course for his students. In 1934, while on a year's leave studying English at Cambridge...