Word: scottishly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...past beckons like a man, and ritualistically, she riffles through the consolations and terrors of her childhood. Her only affection is for her forbidding Scottish father, who flashes by like something seen from a speeding train. He was an undertaker by profession, and so she also associates him with punishment and death. Sometimes her involuntary memory plunges into the future, and she wishfully imagines that she is cramming sleeping pills into her mother's mouth. It all smacks of paperback Freud-and so it could have been...
...temporary independence" at the battle of Bannockburn in 1314 [July 19]? Millions of Scots are under the impression that they still have this independence, though it must be admitted that some are a bit upset about the consequences of the Act of Union, the voluntary coming together of the Scottish and English parliaments...
...less seniority (168 years) than any other Scottish regiment, and many of its "Highlander" troops come from Glasgow or London. Still, that has not prevented the British army's Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders from enjoying a reputation almost as fierce as that of the mountain lairds of ancient Scotland. Some of the kilted troops, in fact, especially when the skirling of the pipers is loudest, trace the beginning of the regiment to "the licking we gave the English at Bannockburn" in 1314, when Scotland won temporary independence. Last week Britain finally gained a revenge of sorts. As part...
...French Érard piano decorated with carved brass. The store will calmly take an order for a baby elephant-a $4,800 present for U.S. Republican Ronald Reagan from a friend-or a head of cabbage requested by telephone in the dead of night. It can find the Scottish piper wanted to pipe in the haggis or hire the entire regimental band of the Coldstream Guards; it can arrange a 1,000-guest party or a richly refined funeral. The store's export department, which grossed over $7 million last year, has sent gooseberries to Saudi Arabia, fresh flowers...
Last week the Nationalists drew 350,000 votes, captured an astonishing 103 seats in Scottish cities and towns. That was not enough to give them a majority in any city, but in Glasgow, Aberdeen and Stirling, they outpolled major parties to win the balance of political power. Those gains demonstrated that nationalism-the dominant political emotion these days in almost every country-has become something of an obsession in Scotland. Heady with victory, Scot-Nat leaders renewed their demand for independence after 261 years of union with England. Said Mrs. Ewing: "The Nationalist Party cannot now be stopped...