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...wild, hazy Scottish moors where he lives, Eric Liddell (Ian Charleson) explains to his earnest sister his motivation for running: "God made me fast, and when I run I feel His pleasure." Liddell plans on a missionary career in China, but first he must spread public awareness of the Lord by himself acquiring worldwide renown. His sister fears that fame will corrupt the purity of his soul, but she needn't worry. Liddell refuses to race in the Olympic preliminary heats because they occur on Sunday; instead, he delivers a sermon in church...
...Holm as the Little Corporal and Billie Whitelaw as his Josephine; a drama series called A Play for Love, which debuted last week with a new one-acter by John Osborne, starring Alec Guinness; and the Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Macbeth, with Ian McKellen as the Scottish insomniac...
Dunster House Music Society--Kenje Ogata, voice and gultar; Scottish and American folk songs; Dunster House Library...
Before he arrived at Wigglesworth Hall, Arshad Zakaria attended the Cathedral School in Bombay, a private institution operated by an Anglo-Scottish educational society. In his first two weeks as an American resident--he arrived a week early to work on dorm crew, which he calls "an original experience"--he has had to make his share of adjustments. "In India, we had domestic help," he recalls wistfully. "I have to do much more here--you can see the state of my bed." The bed is, in fact, remarkably out of control, even by Wigglesworth standards...
Saki was born into a Scottish family with a strong martial tradition and brought up in darkest Devon by a pair of truly Dickensian aunts before escaping to boarding school ("You can't expect a boy to be vicious until he's been to a good school"). He was homosexual, but neither Saki nor Langguth goes in for soul searching about the love that once dared not speak its name. Saki, in fact, never mentioned it. His sister merely refers to his habit of sharing digs with young men as "chumming." In the biographer's view, however...