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...Labor M.P. crouching naked in a willow tree, with 40 Scottish housewives prancing below and screeching: "Come doon, ye mangy tod, and I'll buff your beef!"? Why does a stern Presbyterian minister stand by waving a two-handed sword and bellowing: "There is a harvest still, a harvest of thistles and of tares, for the sword of Gideon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greek in the Heather | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Pettigrew v. Passion. Linklater's setting is a Scottish fishing village, his characters a cross section of classes from laird to laborers. Too somnolent to worship Dionysus, too remote to be reformed by Pentheus, the villagers of Laxdale have only one wish in life-to see Parliament vote them money for a decent road over the moors. Instead, Laxdale gets a personal visit from Mr. Pettigrew, a blue-nosed Labor M.P. who regards Highland life as the epitome of insanitary sloth. He brings a shapely wife, who admires his Penthean principles but turns to lustier men for her Dionysian...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greek in the Heather | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Spry or Sly? In the end, Linklater's Laxdalers have hopes of getting their road. But they have already got what Linklater feels is equally important-a Dionysian respite from the austerity of modern Scottish life. The minister waving his two-handed sword at the frenzied women symbolically expresses another of the morals of Laxdale Hall: Christianity itself becomes more vigorous when sinners are spry instead...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Greek in the Heather | 7/28/1952 | See Source »

Died. Dr. Andrew Cowper Lawson, 91, professor emeritus (of geology and mineralogy) at the University of California; after long illness; in San Leandro, Calif. An authority on earthquakes, Scottish-born Dr. Lawson attracted nationwide attention in 1949, when, at the age of 87, he became the father of a son ("It's nothing, it happens all the time. I don't see why old men should be debarred from having families...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Jun. 30, 1952 | 6/30/1952 | See Source »

...demanded daily instead of the routine monthly payments on all rail freight charges. West Berliners were delighted by a tit-for-tat British gesture: surrounding for seven days a Communist radio station in the British sector with barbed wire and a cordon of tam-o'-shan-tered Scottish troops, trapping inside 40 East Germans and 20 Russian soldiers...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: BERLIN: Besieged City | 6/16/1952 | See Source »

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