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...Common Mar ket's economy boomed, Britain has felt increasingly envious-and isolated. Britain's hastily assembled European Free Trade Association of the Outer Seven proved pale competition for the spurting Six; E.F.T.A. partners Denmark and Sweden are restive and dissatisfied. In Parliament, press and pub, Britons were debating the far-reaching issues that the Common Market poses...
...counterpart, she is apt to have no hobbies, recreations or interests of her own; she does little social, welfare or community work, and frequently does not have a single book in the house. Her husband is notoriously uninterested in togetherness, prefers to spend his evenings in the local pub. Said one bingo organizer: "A social revolution has taken place. There is now something just as respectable for women to go to as a pub or club has long been for their husbands. No one would call a woman who played bingo fast. What has a woman past her first youth...
...this makes for much rough talk and romantic warbling, with which Donnybrook! at its best has little to do. Matters perk up when a pub-owning widow (Su san Johnson) sings a lament for a spouse she could not lament less; matters tinkle prettily when the wedding guests toast the bride. Matters are brightest of all by way of Eddie Foy's flings and flashbacks into American vaudeville. When Foy dances on his knees, or his feet seem caught in twisted yarn, or he just sidles off from Ireland and the show, he provides literal footnotes to a great...
Finney plays the part of Arthur Seaton, a machinist in a Midlands mill who slaves away at the lathe all week, but on Saturday night it's down to the pub for a glorious case of the screaming ab-dabs. After putting away ten pints of beer, Arthur falls blissfully down a flight of stairs, staggers home with a friend's wife (Rachel Roberts), wakes up next morning just in time to walk out the front door as the friend walks in the back. Off to a bar, he spots a little bit of all right (Shirley Anne...
Kingmaker . . . Making the election a battle was the idea of a tempestuous female kingmaker: Enid Starkie, Fellow of Somerville College, a brilliant Rimbaud scholar who pub-crawls about Oxford in bright red slacks and beret while smoking cigars. In 1951 she proposed that the chair actually be occupied by a poet. Her candidate: Poet C. Day Lewis. At once, her archrival, tweedy Helen Gardner, Fellow of St. Hilda's College, now famed as an oddly prim defender of Lady Chatterley's Lover, entered Novelist (The Screwtape Letters) C. S. Lewis. In the ensuing battle of Lewis v. Lewis...