Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Animal. It is a rare father who appreciates a son with a talent better than his own. The Scottish Alexander Boswell, annoyed with Son James's apparently aimless career, writes in 1763 barely two weeks after James's famous meeting with Samuel Johnson: "Be more on guard for the future against mimicry, journals and publications, and endeavor to find out some person of worth who may be a friend." Heinrich Marx, a prosperous lawyer, rebukes his son Karl in 1837 for turning into a drone at the university and sadly agrees with the boy's mother that...
...Winston Churchill, then a Liberal, in favor of the only Prohibitionist ever to sit in Parliament. In 1959 the Labor Party only managed to hang onto Dundee by 714 votes, and so, in last week's by-election, the Tories had hopes that the impact of a new, Scottish Prime Minis ter might help to defeat Labor. Instead, the government suffered another set back. The progressive Conservative candidate, a popular lawyer, lost to his Laborite opponent, a trade-union official, by 4,955 votes, a Tory drop of 8.8% from the last general election...
Next day the Tories had one to talk about, when ballots were at last counted after another by-election in the sprawling Scottish constituency of Kinross and West Perthshire. There, in one of Britain's safest Tory seats, Tory Prime Minister Lord Home-now plain Sir Alec Douglas-Home-won a seat in the House of Commons. His 9,328-vote margin exceeded his party's most buoyant expectations. What's more, in the course of 72 speeches and a hectic eleven-day campaign, the former peer proved that he is a vigorous, tough-minded politician...
...first program, Princeton's first moment of glory came in the Prisoners' chorus from Fidelio, "O welche Lust!" From the quiet, weirdly mobile introduction of the piano, the chorus swelled to the turbulent, if slightly breathy, prisoners' cries. In the Yowes," a Scottish folk song arranged by R. Vaughan Williams, the opening solo of baritone William Parker reduced to complete silence the usual rattlings and coughings of a Sanders audience. The chorus, which by then had warmed up and had warmed its audience to it, continued the delicate clarity with which Paker had begun; conductor Walter Noliner made the song...
...efficacy of principle is brought into question by many less amicable than the old Scottish preacher whose practice was to extricate himself from treacherous discussion with his parishioners with the statement: "It may not be right, and it may not be just, but it is the will of God." If only the will of God could be so certainly known...