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Salutary Shake-Up. Shaw's energetic speechmaking to civic groups has also given the Establishment a salutary shaking up (his opener at the Junior League: "I feel as if I'm in the midst of a huge, white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant harem"); and he has served notice that he hopes for even greater changes to come: more tours, participation by the orchestra in opera and ballet productions, creation of a conservatory in Atlanta...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Conductors: Downbeat for a New Era | 10/27/1967 | See Source »

...reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: !!PppppppP!!! | 8/18/1967 | See Source »

...Spruce School has a large Mexican enrollment, and this provided an interesting sidelight. Among the "spurter" Mexican boys with faces that loked Anglo-Saxon showed higher gains than those with more identifiably Mexican faces...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Research Shows Student Does Well When His Teacher Expects Him To | 8/15/1967 | See Source »

Charles de Gaulle may be stubborn, outrageous and unrealistic in his ambi tions for France, but his policies usual ly contain a degree of rationality. His opposition to British entry into Europe, however motivated it may be by anti-Anglo-Saxon prejudice, makes a certain amount of sense because British entry would surely bring problems and perhaps dangers to the Common Market. His recent diplomatic support of the Arabs against Israel, however in consistent with past French policy, makes a Machiavellian kind of sense because De Gaulle wants to increase French influence among Arab nations disillusioned with Russia and disgusted...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: The Spoiler | 8/4/1967 | See Source »

STRATFORD FESTIVAL, Stratford, Ontario. Until Oct. 14, Canadians and visitors will get a taste of Russian humor in Nikolai Gogol's The Government Inspector, with The Merry Wives of Windsor providing the Anglo-Saxon comedy. Richard 111, played by Alan Bates, represents a somewhat darker strain. On July 31, Christopher Plummer appears as Antony, with Zoe Caldwell as his Cleopatra. A new play, James Reaney's Colours in the Dark, debuts July...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Listings: Jul. 14, 1967 | 7/14/1967 | See Source »

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