Word: wren
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...wing commander (Dallas Cavell), a jowly autocrat who regards the conscripts as disgusting animals and wants to see them make a loutish display of themselves, calls for some rock-'n'-roll music. Pip stops the music and coaxes one of the conscripts to sing The Cutty Wren, an old folk song of peasant revolt. It begins with the stilly calm of a Christmas carol, but as the stanzas become more aggressive, the conscripts improvise a louder and louder beat of spoon on glass, stick on stick, fist on palm. The powerful rhythmic din is the voice...
...lazily in a chair'') will notice what a fine, manly style of address Johnsonian English really is. Johnsonian English, which has come to mean a sonorous and orotund Latinity of style, anfractuously embellished with dependent clauses like the marble ornaments of a baroque memorial in a Wren church, was as close to the farmyard, the tavern and the brawling life of London streets as it was to the Latin grammar...
...Perhaps V. stands for Venezuela, and an abortive political plot of the turn of the century. Perhaps it stands for Vesuvius, or for Valletta, the capital of Malta. More likely, but not at all certainly, it is the first initial of the name of a mysterious girl tourist, Victoria Wren, who vanished in 1901 but turns up in different guises at times of riot or political intrigue. Victoria wears a glass eye whose iris is a clock face...
...fraternal gift to Fulton. The Anglican Diocese of London agreed to give Westminster the bombed-out remains of the church of St. Mary Aldermanbury. If Parliament and the London County Council approve, the church will be dismantled stone by stone, rebuilt at Fulton with a new interior based on Wren's designs, and renamed the Churchill Memorial Chapel. Cost: about $1,000,000, hopefully to be raised by subscription...
Since London still has plenty of other Wren churches. Anglican antiquarians have uttered little protest. Sir Winston himself strongly approves...