Word: welsh
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...though he has been dead three years-this is Sevan's own brief. It is a sort of ghost-written book, with Foot as ghost, for Biographer Foot was not only a close friend and passionate partisan; he is today what Bevan was-Member of Parliament for the Welsh miners of Ebbw Vale and Socialism's most bitter and intransigent voice in the House of Commons. Thus he can hardly be expected to stress the central irony of Sevan's life: that a man cannot make himself, as Bevan did, an effective tribune of the poor...
...charcoal cartoon. In Tredegar, it was lived between the pits and the chapel. The visible enemy was the Tredegar Iron & Coal Co., and the audible heroes were the preachers in the chapels and the orators in the miners' lodges. Nye Bevan grew up in a time when Welsh nonconformity was moving from religion to politics, and Nye moved with the times. He easily shed the Methodist-Baptist faith of his home, because it transformed so easily into political evangelism. Roaming the green hills above the black pitheads, he spouted verses to cure his stammer, and, in a race fearsomely...
...Archbishop of Canterbury does not seem religious (properly so, perhaps), but he injects a wonderful bit of humor into his long sophistry over the "Salique law" by following each occurrence of the word "daughter" with a "hmm?" Lester Rawlins makes a rich and colorful figure of the valorous Welsh captain Fluellen...
Born. To Peter O'Toole, 29, fast-rising Irish cinemactor (Lawrence of Arabia), currently making Becket with Richard Burton, and Welsh Actress Sian Phillips, 28: a second child, second daughter; in Dublin...
...company discreetly tiptoed around him and assembled in the Red Room for more talk and a few old school songs. > Got word that his three dogs, Charlie, Pushinka and Clipper, will wear District of Columbia dog licenses Nos. 1, 2 and 3, beginning July 1. Charlie, a Welsh terrier, already carries No. 1, but Pushinka (Khrushchev's gift to Caroline) and Clipper (Old Joe Kennedy's gift) have held tag Nos. 9 and 10. They will move up to replace the No. 2 dog, Jefferson, otherwise known as Little Beagle Johnson, owned by Vice President Johnson...