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...cultural confrontation of more or less conventional Americans and the longhaired young at times savors of Roundhead v. Cavalier, or H.G. Wells' Morlocks v. Eloi. How elemental the face-off can become was demonstrated last week in Monterey, Calif., when the state unemployment-insurance office ruled that jobless men with long hair can no longer collect unemployment benefits...
...other of these disparate attitudes may be detected by Burgess in almost any important English literary works. Such rigorous philosophical dogma, inherited from a Catholic education, is unexpected in English criticism, which is not normally ideological although the Burgess polarities have been roughly characterized as Cavalier and Roundhead. Yet Burgess's prose never seems plodding despite his spiritual preoccupations. In any case, he is the kind of man who could write a light review of a heavy British Treasury tax form. Should he do so in the future, it will have to be written from Valetta. Anthony Burgess...
...King's War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. A vivid, scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...
...King's War: 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...
...King's War, 1641-1647, by C. V. Wedgwood. History is a people's memory, and few have summoned up Britain's more vividly than Historian Wedgwood in this scholarly account of Cavalier v. Roundhead...