Word: sussex
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dirge reflects not only the declining impact of religion generally but some hard demographic facts. Largely because of farm mechanization, England's rural population has dwindled by 75% in the past half-century; in some isolated pockets of Sussex and East Anglia, it has fallen to 2% of the pre-World War I level. But while the people have gone, their churches remain. Near the village of Tetford, for example, there are seven miniature churches, most of them nearly 200 years old, that were built by the old town gentry in a kind of keeping-up-with-Squire-Jones...
Dear Horse. He was born in 1853, a younger son of a wealthy Sussex squire. In three years, after leaving Cambridge University, he ran through what seems to have been a sizable inheritance. He decided to gamble himself back to affluence, did well for a while, and then grandly staked all his winnings on a two-horse race, having made up his mind to recoup his fortune in the U.S. if he lost. Later he wrote: "The dear, handsome little horse ran most gamely, but in the last hundred yards tired under the weight and just failed to get home...
...have to hit them in the face with it." That pleasant chore falls to Mick Jagger, 23, the Stones' heavy-lipped lead shouter, who in performances bumps, grinds and jiggles his pelvis like a spastic marionette. Jagger also has a summons to appear in a Sussex court next month on a charge of possessing drugs...
Paul Scofield, the best actor, for A Man for All Seasons, remained in Sussex, England. Elizabeth Taylor, the best actress, for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfl, sent her polite regrets from Nice.* Sandy Dennis, the best supporting actress, for Virginia Woolf, stayed put in New York. Only Walter Matthau, the best supporting actor, for The Fortune Cookie, showed up-as did All Seasons Director Fred Zinnemann and Scenarist Robert Bolt...
...fields in a score of states were churned into lacteal goo by the deluge, and in New Jersey-where farmers and their wives and children walked through a snowstorm to deliver their complaints to the state-house-nearly 1,000,000 Ibs. still warm from the cow, turned a Sussex County snowfield into curds...