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...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
...Lawns were not always the chosen landscape of the educational countryside; Oxford and Cambridge adapted and refined their expanses of herbiage to conform to fashion dictates. Oxbridge was the seat of elite male education in Britannia. In her 1994 work, "The Lawn: A History of an American Obsession," Virginia Scott Jenkins relates how the lawn concept emerged in the 18th century, when the gardens at Versailles were designed to include a small lawn, called the "tapis vert" and the popularity of Lancelot Brown's landscape stylings in Britain ("a new, elite style characterized by a mixture of meadows, water...
...wants a modern country with a modern democracy. Unfortunately, he finds himself in charge of a very old-fashioned nation. So he has set himself the visionary target of "rebranding" Britain. Instead of enjoying this country of nice old things, he wants to create a new "cool Britannia." Little surprise, then, that his passion for the modern has spread upward from Britain's House of Commons into the 700-year-old House of Lords. Under plans unveiled last week by Baroness Jay, the Labour government's leader of the Lords, Britain's 700 hereditary peers are about...
Look out, Leo: Prince William wants to be king. While Leonardo DiCaprio, America's most squealed-at name (and New York's most written-about club-hopper) once again topped the list of Pathfinder.com's most searched-for last week, Britannia's young lion -- on the strength of his Sweet Sixteen -- climbed the charts to a very close second...
...case someone does, there's Britain's current boom in the arts. Whether it's movies like the The Full Monty, bands like Oasis and the Spice Girls, or designers like Stella McCartney, the hottest thing going these days seems to come from what is cloyingly known as "cool Britannia." And while Blair admits that this artistic blossoming was under way before he took office, he and his coterie of young advisers have relentlessly, even shamelessly, courted and promoted the hip as a way of announcing to the world that Britain is changing...