Word: saxonism
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...alien peoples. Every other empire in history has either crumbled from within, exploded or been razed by invaders. By temperament and experience, Britain should be uniquely capable of making the successful passage from Commonwealth to Common Market-and in so doing, bring about that mingling of the Anglo-Saxon and the Latin spirit that Historian André Siegfried saw as the genius of Europe. As Edward Heath said to the House of Commons last month, "What we are dealing with is not tariffs or trade. We are dealing with fundamental human values. They affect the future of millions of people...
...Britain since Henry VIII is that Britain should not associate with predominantly Roman Catholic Western Europe; the Free Church of Scotland has specifically warned members against the sinister "web of Rome." Another criticism of British membership is that under Common Market guarantees of free movement, the Anglo-Saxon shores will be invaded by hordes of immigrants from the Continent, competing for jobs and living space...
...well-to-do New York dentist, Gabe is an intelligent, joyless, bored young man who is a scholar more by default than vocation. When the reader first sees him, he is a graduate student at the University of Iowa (his most irksome course is, naturally, Anglo-Saxon-a sly touch of the kind Roth is best at). There Gabe meets Paul and Libby Herz, a morose young couple living in a water-stained barracks apartment furnished chiefly with smudged paper-ungraded exams, piled paperbacks, Utrillo reproduction tacked to the wall. Their poverty is merely the standard lower academic kind...
...writing his memoirs, which are now all but complete and are only a few paragraphs shorter than the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle; the first volume will be published in London next year. He has gone over the manuscript again and again, tearing up thousands of sheets of paper, never happy with the often hazy images that his memory has supplied. Also, he is supposedly working on a screenplay about an aristocratic steamship passenger and a female stowaway, intending to star his son Sydney. He has also talked of a comedy about space travel. But most of that is idle whimsy...
...needed to sandpaper that a bit; yet he stayed with a Jewish name: Eddie Cantor. But most-from Jerry Levitch (Jerry Lewis) to Nathan Birnbaum (George Burns), Emanuel Goldenberg (Edward G. Robinson), Pauline Levy (Paulette Goddard), Rosetta Jacobs (Piper Laurie), and Melvin Hesselberg (Melvyn Douglas)-have preferred the Anglo-Saxon angle...