Word: scotlanders
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...doubling the country's revenues from whisky (some $250 million annually in sales to the U.S. alone), ships, foodstuffs and tartan knits, became the Nationalists' crunching argument. With annual profits of $1.5 billion expected to flow in from the North Sea by 1980, the Nationalists argued that Scotland could manage without the economic support that Westminster has poured into the country since...
...problems. "England is bankrupt and has nowhere to go," says Robert Curran, 50, a recently returned émigré. "Our whisky alone could float the government." Many Scots resent the fact that they hold few influential positions in the south, while Englishmen control many of the best jobs in Scotland. Despite net emigration losses totaling nearly 20% of the population since the mid-'50s, the Scots suffer an unemployment rate twice as high as, and a standard of living 12% lower than, the rest of Britain. Despite the idyllic beauty of much of Scotland, cities like Glasgow are scarred...
Vehicle of Expression. The Scots view the English as wanton spendthrifts locked into an immutably snobbish class system. By contrast, they emphasize their own rough candor and their belief in a radical kind of social justice. "The only class accent in Scotland," says Poet Sorley Maclean, "is the English...
Despite the unlikelihood that it will achieve its ultimate aims for some time to come-if ever-Scottish nationalism is being discussed, in this most empirical and skeptical of countries, as Scotland's first significant political movement of the past 50 years. At the very least, the movement has revitalized the Scots' sense of their own uniqueness. Poet MacDiarmid recalls a statement by Robert Louis Stevenson that "there are no adjacent peoples in the world so utterly and inalterably opposed to each other as the Scots and the English." To MacDiarmid the lesson to be drawn from Stevenson...
...book's last stop is Thompson's visit to a far-out colony called Findhorn, near Inverness in Scotland. The Findhornians devoutly believe that "matter is a condensation of consciousness." Therefore "you can commune with plants and spirits of nature if you know how to pitch your consciousness at the same vibratory level." Thompson likes the idea, in part because it appears in so many pantheistic myths and in part because his search is for just such an evolutionary potential...