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...friend's Sunday brunch, a woman uses an Anglo-Saxon barnyard expression. A polite male will...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: America's New Manners | 11/27/1978 | See Source »

...things in sextuplicate. You will find chemistry tutors who write musicals on the side, and the head of an Oxford college who also chairs a very popular radio quiz program. The most brilliant intellects will display a modesty bordering on absent-mindedness: someone who says he dabbles in Anglo-Saxon poetry may well turn out to be the world's greatest expert on it. If you can accept all this, and see it not merely as something which is "cute" (an expression, incidentally, which the English hate), but as a vital part of a process whereby the past and present...

Author: By Gordon Marsden, | Title: Behind the Gowns | 10/31/1978 | See Source »

...Jordan was elected the first black member of the Texas state senate, which contained "30 White, Anglo-Saxon, Protestant men... and myself," she said...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Rep. Barbara Jordan Speaks To 150 At Kirkland House | 10/20/1978 | See Source »

...Saxon Theater--210 Tremont St.--Sex World...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Film Listings | 8/4/1978 | See Source »

...must like this kind of approach or he wouldn't have continued using it." In fact, the chore was less onerous than she had feared. "I must hand it to the Rumanians," she confided to her diary. "Their idea of impotence in old age is the Anglo-Saxon notion of potency in the prime of life...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: The Past Recaptured | 6/12/1978 | See Source »

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