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...history," said Philosopher Alfred North Whitehead once, "before I read it." He played games amid relics of the Roman, Saxon and Norman conquests; his father was vicar of a church built by the medieval Minster monks. As a boy he watched British seapower-in full sail-pass through the Channel. He prepped at 1,200-year-old Sherborne School, which claims Alfred the Great as a pupil...
...always wanted Canada in. The Dominion, with its tie to the Crown in London, was once regarded as an outpost of the Old World. But now, Canada would be welcomed as another Anglo-Saxon voice at a predominantly Latin table. The constitution of the Pan American Union can easily be changed at the Bogota conference this year to admit the Dominion...
...Flight of the Birds. To the Germans, dreamers of efficient dreams, Ford had always been a special hero. One of the innumerable books about him (which usually found a place of honor near Mein Kampf) declared: "It is magnificent how the Aryan, the Teuton, the Saxon, the true masterman comes to life in Ford...
Elected from the area of Social Sciences were Mary Lou Bensley 2G, Shreekant A. Palekar 1G, Andrew E. Rice 1G, and Richard N. Swift 1G. Those appointed were Munro S. Edmonson 1G, Florence K. Nierman 2G, Melvin Richter 1G, O. Glenn Saxon 1G, and W. P. Snavely...
Much of the book's flavor is due to the presence of the old people with their Frisian speech (which is close to the Anglo-Saxon), their memories and legends of old Friesland. The story is told almost season by season, chore by chore. Author Feikema excels in descriptions of plowing, cultivating, reaping, threshing. Sometimes sensitively, sometimes awkwardly, sometimes with embarrassing rhetoric he has written a unique regional novel...