Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...papers lets the reader count the ways. It pictures Johnson-the most ungainly of oldsters, the most nearsighted of onlookers, the most sedentary of talkers, the most fanatical of Londoners-perched atop tiny horses, half-drowned in pitching vessels, sleeping in chilly barns and clambering over rocks in remote Scottish islands. And by the side of this most incongruous of Crusoes trudges the most inspired of Man Fridays...
When Johnson was shown a Scottish forest, he remarked that he would have called it a heath. As for Scottish scenery: "The noblest prospect that a Scotchman ever sees is the high road that leads him to London." But he could poke fun at himself as well; asked if he would not start if he saw a ghost, he answered, "I hope not. If I did, I should frighten the ghost." But if the tour aroused Johnson's antic side, it aroused his antiquarian side even more. On the islands - Raasay and Skye and Mull - there were still feudal...
...Gumming, 62, a spirited Scot whose great-grandfather founded the Cardow Distillery, which later was absorbed by Johnnie Walker. Gumming, an army officer in both world wars, became a Distillers director in 1946, has been a major force in Britain's drive to export more Scotch. A onetime Scottish all-star rugby player, he is described by a close friend as a person who "enjoys life to the full-including his own product...
...been following us with that thing ever since we left the Crinan Canal." bellowed England's Prince Philip, 41, to a telephoto-toting Scottish newspaper photographer chasing along the bank as the duke's royal yawl Bloodhound maneuvered through locks near Fort William, Scotland. "Do you want a bloody picture of my left earhole?" he cried. At least the Scottish edition of the Daily Herald did, next day ran a picture of the regal left ear along with a verbatim account of the royal remarks...
James Bruce, a gingerish Scottish aristocrat, was the first Briton to penetrate to the headwaters of the Blue Nile, at Lake Tana in Ethiopia. Bruce's intrusion into the "nightmarish fantasy of Ethiopian affairs," where he casually joined as it suited him one or another of the chronic little local wars, is a historic comedy with tragic forebodings. Bruce himself was an arrogant braggart, and Moorehead has great fun with his efforts to discredit the stories of missionaries who had been there before...