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Words of Latin and French derivation referring to the sex act and bodily organs are acceptable in English. Bloomfield testified, but words of Angio-Saxon origin with identical meanings are tabu. He also said that certain words common to lower social classes are slowly becoming more acceptable in modern literature...
...first and practically final version, Ship of Fools has been in the making for 20 years-"or 30 if I count how long I thought about it." Based on a diary she kept on a 1931 voyage from Veracruz to Bremerhaven aboard a German ship crowded with Teutonic, Anglo-Saxon and Latin types, Ship of Fools is an oceangoing Grand Hotel, which tells in parable form of the slothful, harmless and irresponsible people who made possible the rise of fascism. "I took for my own this ageless, almost universal image of the ship of this world on its voyage...
...Czech refugee who had stolen food to stay alive, the human decency displayed by all hands is all the more impressive because it is done without show or procedural fanfare. And yet, amid all the patient and infinitely cumbersome machinery of justice based on the Roman law, the Anglo-Saxon "sporting spirit, the notion of the law as a game of skill with handicaps to give each side a chance, is entirely absent from the Continent...
...that's what I'm not. Because they don't know a bloody thing about me. I'm a six-foot prop that wants a pint o' beer, that's what." With this Teddy-boyish declaration of grog-on-ice independence, the "Saxon Revolt" that is currently burning up the grass roots of British literature breaks out with brawling and exhilarant abandon on the screen. Adapted by Alan Sillitoe from his rumbustiously original first novel, Saturday Night and Sunday Morning is easily the best British movie since Room at the Top-a loud, hilarious...
...With it now clearly established that our country does not accord prior rights to Anglo-Saxon Protestants, you can expect to find Catholics turning up in all sorts of places where, formerly, nursing real or partially imagined resentments, they never quite felt at home: on all the citizens' committees that heretofore they frequently seemed to shun-committees to clear slums, organize municipal orchestras, build new wings on public libraries, raise money for the Red Cross, and all the rest. We shall be surprised if, from now on, Catholics don't take a more active and constructive interest...