Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...expands them into Warring Countries-whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill with Negroes frugging to the skirl of bagpipes...
...expands them into Warring Countries - whereupon the screen flashcuts to newsreels of battle; when the words change to Welcome Communists, Russians pass in review. A scrawl in the subway, "Niggers Go Home," reminds him of My Heart's in the Highlands; bigotry is changed to beauty as the Scottish hills abruptly fill with Negroes frugging to the skirl of bagpipes...
SUNSHINE SUPERMAN (Epic). The fellow the kids know as Donovan, who made his fame as a sort of Scottish Dylan ("You fill your glasses with the wine of murdered Negroes"), has forsaken protest for the pipes of a psychedelic Pied Piper, leading his myriad followers to a never-ever land of "velvet thrones" and "cascading crystals" via "trans-love airways." "I will bring you gold app-uls and grapes made of rubies" he chants, weaving a seamless tapestry of fairy tales with titles like Legend of a Girl Child Linda and The Fat Angel...
...nice of the Queen to include Scottish Novelist (The Mandelbaum Gate) Muriel Spark, 45, on the New Year Honors List, naming her to the Order of the British Empire. Nice, but not nearly nice enough, complained the ladies of British letters, who regarded the O.B.E., one step from the bottom of the honors, as a damn with faint praise. Sniped Rebecca West, herself a more lofty Dame Commander of the Order: "I cannot help but think that the persons responsible for recommending the award to Muriel Spark of an O.B.E. must have been actuated by a desire to make...
...time with the Mizos, a fiercely proud tribe of 260,000 hill people in Eastern India who resent being governed by lowland Assamese and have been showing their displeasure by blocking roads, raiding towns, and attacking Indian Army patrols. Indira's father, Jawaharlal Nehru, promised the Mizos a "Scottish solution," which would grant them a measure of local autonomy. Indira is expected to renew the offer...