Word: spencers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...could be singled out as Hitler's most resolute and effective antagonist, it was Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill. On the day the Germans attacked Poland, he was 64 years old and had held no Cabinet post in ten years. Yet in all the West, his was the voice that had most forcefully denounced Hitler, most prophetically warned that Britain must rearm to resist him. While Parliament approved the Munich agreement, Churchill called it "a total and unmitigated defeat." He said of Neville Chamberlain, "In the depths of that dusty soul, there is nothing but abject surrender...
...English movies of the '80s had a team like Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, David Lodge's funny, adroit Nice Work would make an ideal vehicle for them. The novel's protagonist, Vic Wilcox, is a gruff but keen-witted exec struggling to turn around a laggard steel-parts factory in Rummidge -- "an imaginary city," the author informs us, "which occupies, for the purposes of fiction, the space where Birmingham is to be found on maps of the so-called real world." Vic's antagonist (and here the term is literal) is Robyn Penrose, an attractive, rigorously feminist lecturer...
News Editor for This Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Emily M. Bernstein '90 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Joseph R. Palmore '91 Features Editors: Colin F. Boyle '90 Ross G. Forman '90 Editorial Editor: Joshua M. Sharfstein '91 Sports Editor: Julio R. Varela '90 Photography Editor: Leor S. Bachar '90 Business Editor: Andrew R. Jassy '91 Copy Editors: Leor S. Bachar '90 Stephen J. Newman...
News Editor for This Issue: Susan B. Glasser '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Ross G. Forman '90 Emily Mieras '90 Joseph R. Palmore '91 David A. Plotz '92 Features Editor: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Editorial Editor: Ross G. Forman '90 Sports Editor: Michael R. Grunwald '92 Michael D. Stankiewicz Photography Editor: Jelmar C. J. DeJong Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: James P. O'Rourke...
News Editor for This Issue: Spencer S. Hsu '90 Night Editors: Jonathan S. Cohn '91 Brian R. Hecht '92 Matthew M. Hoffman '91 Teresa A. Mullin '90 Features Editors: Susan B. Glasser '90 Melissa R. Hart '91 Editorial Editor: Andrew J. Bates '90 Sports Editor: Michael D. Stankiewicz '91 Photography Editor: Susan D. Wojcicki '90 Business Editor: Michael S. Harwayne '91 Copy Editor: Steven M. Hopchick...