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Between these two dramatic points, Burgess strings a panorama of impressions, both personal and pertinent to his age. John Burgess Wilson (his pseudonym came later) grew up Roman Catholic in a Protestant country, "more of a Celt than an Anglo-Saxon." He was neither the first nor the last Englishman to feel estranged from his native land while learning to love its language and literature, but his generation was cut off from the past by the arrival of radio, the cinema, "American world hegemony, the dissolution of Christendom." When he begins losing his Catholic faith, the author confers with...
...STORY OF ENGLISH (PBS). From the Anglo-Saxon invasion in A.D. 449 through the feminist incursions of the 1970s, the development of a language is recounted in fascinating detail by Robert MacNeil...
...longer. Britain's second largest bank last week announced it was selling its share of Barclays National, South Africa's biggest commercial bank, for $116 million to a consortium of South African firms, including Anglo American, a diversified mining and manufacturing company, and the De Beers diamond concern. The divestiture, which followed a gradual reduction of the British bank's holdings in Barclays National to 40.4% by last year, was made in the face of rising worldwide sentiment against apartheid and doing business in South Africa. Said Sir Timothy Bevan, chairman of Barclays: "I'm not a coward...
Bailyn's 668-page tome--the first in a series on population movements--documents the lives of English and Scottish emigrants to the colonies between 1773 and 1776, the last Anglo-Saxon group to reach the East Coast before the American Revolution...
...James Goldsmith, 53, the Anglo-French raider, abruptly ended his 2 1/2- week siege of Goodyear Tire & Rubber, the Akron manufacturer, after being grilled before the House Subcommittee on Monopolies and Commercial Law in Washington. "My question is: Who the hell are you?" said Ohio Democrat John Seiberling, whose family founded Goodyear. Goldsmith's sharp retort was that he represented the "rough, tough world of competition . . . a world in which you run a business as a business and not as an institution." But the aggressive tycoon, who owned 11.5% of Goodyear's stock and had offered $4.7 billion...