Word: wyndham
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...representatives of the Common Market, the U.S., and ten other nations faced Eric Wyndham White, the British executive secretary for the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). One by one, they presented folders bearing the all-important list of goods they wish excepted from the upcoming series of tariff-cutting talks. It was, said Wyndham White, "a historic moment." Cars & Food. In history's most ambitious effort to expand world trade, the Kennedy Round aims at cutting all tariffs among the 64 members of GATT up to 50% now, and eventually eliminating them entirely. Such cuts would enable...
...heavy with torpor and reluctance. After more than a year of preliminary parleys that tried to lay a groundwork on which the conference could proceed, all the delegates had really agreed on was that they still have monumental disagreements to over come. GATT Executive Secretary Eric Wyndham White, whose job was to open the conference with a ringing keynote, had to admit the seriousness of the fail ure to set so much as the terms for negotiating. "This is disappointing," he said, "and it would be foolish to pretend otherwise...
...fact that he does not try to work the old conversational trick on those well-enough known to have a recognizable style of their own. Ezra Pound, for instance, who appears in the book as a tennis and boxing partner, gets to say very little. Neither James Joyce nor Wyndham Lewis gets to say anything...
...LETTERS OF WYNDHAM LEWIS edited by W. K. Rose. 580 pages. New Directions...
Some called him a revolutionary, others called him a reactionary, and T. S. Eliot called him the "most fascinating personality of our time." The time was the 1920s and '30s, and the man was Wyndham Lewis. Since then, Lewis has died, and the many battles he fought and which seemed so important at the time have passed into memory. Now Lewis' collected letters recall those battles-the clang and clatter of cubism, futurism, imagism, vorticism; the boisterous challenge to the literary establishment of "the Men of 1914": Eliot, James Joyce, Ezra Pound and, not least by a long...