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After Florovsky and Stendahl described their "Continetal background," where "a university is not regarded as a community," William R. Crout 3 GD, pointed out that no speaker had upheld the tradition of the Anglo-Saxon university. This viewpoint, Crout said, "should not be omitted...
Egged on by such advisers, Kishi has chipped away at the Anglo-Saxon political concepts of Japan's 1946 "MacArthur Constitution." presses for at least a partial return to the hierarchical, authoritarian traditions native to Japan. By order of the Kishi government, Japanese schoolchildren will soon find themselves doing playground drill in the militaristic prewar fashion, and will be subjected to regular doses of "moral education...
...great day for the Irish (and for everyone else) when they decided to write as well as fight. Irish society-provincial yet picturesque, with its deep conflicts between Celtic and Anglo-Saxon ways, between priesthood and peasantry, its sense of tragedy and the merciless compulsion of its members to explain themselves literately at the top of their voices-is itself a book already half-written. These days there is nothing like the Troubles going on in Ireland, but there is still a spot of trouble-enough for a headline or two and many a novel. The latest, A Terrible Beauty...
...glorified by the undergraduates at Harvard than were his other efforts. Far more significant to the development of the study of English language and literature are his discovery of the tremendous influence thirteenth century French poets had on Chaucer, his valuable inquiry into the ways in which the Anglo-Saxon language grew out of Germanic tongues, and his extensive research into medieaval mythology, especially the works of Sir Thomas Malory...
...Easterners Claire and Blazer Gates, a couple long on charm and short on character. Blazer is Jimmy's old roommate at Yale, and he treats life as an eternal Whiffenpoof Song. For kicks, the three sometimes bandy about "all the graphic, beautiful four-letter words of the Anglo-Saxon," but the revels turn sober when Claire and Jimmy end up in that old Anglo-Saxon place, bedd...