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...from precisely such uncomfortable facts that mouthings about moral schizophrenia shield their speakers. The phrase "tragic war in Vietnam," has become a near proverb among Liberals. But "tragic" has no definite meaning; it doesn't refer to Aristotle's rules of drama, or Elizabethan concepts of the rise and fall of statesmen, or anything like that. Insofar as it means anything at all, it means "sad." Accordingly, the phrase is given out in subdued undertones, as though a dead man with a brokenhearted widow were weeping in the next room. It is used as if in reference to an accident...
Poulson's arrest means that British papers will no longer refer to him in connection with the growing scandal -now being called the "British Watergate"-and it makes especially poignant one sentence in the self-censored editorial: "We should certainly try to avoid the situation in the United States in which there are ordinary prosecutions and a major public inquiry taking place simultaneously." The upshot is that discussion of the larger scandal has been quashed for now. If the same system existed in the U.S., the real story of Watergate might have remained buried while the pawns were being...
...just arrived in the mail, and did not fit the catalogue description." But the author usually has the steadiness to know when enough-already is enough. The only serious objection to her portrait is that she characterizes Camilla as an honors graduate in English, and then has the girl refer to "the passive tense." Tense is what psycho-maternity patients are, and voice is what passive is. A healthy, full-term first little novel anyway...
...note explaining how Jews became known as moneylenders in England during the Middle Ages.* If by chance Shloimovitz does win his case, the O.E.D. will undoubtedly have other aggrieved readers in the courtroom. Among them might be thousands of irate Yorkshiremen. "Yorkshire," says the dictionary, is sometimes used to refer to "the boorishness, cunning, sharpness or trickery attributed to Yorkshire people...
Primrose Hue. Traditionalists, however, could take heart from the fact that Phillips is an uncommon commoner. His family is what the British refer to as "county"-people of comfortable means who have homes and stables in the counties and hold high business or professional positions, if they work at all. The Phillipses have a handsome 16th century house of Cotswold stone and primrose hue in Great Somerford, Wiltshire, about 80 miles west of London. Mark's grandfather was an equerry to King George VI. His father, Peter Phillips, is a director of T. Wall & Sons, a large produce firm...