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...Germans say that Gromyko has "an Anglo-Saxon sense of melancholy." If this is so, it may be explained by the fact that he knows that he works for men who will blame him if he permits himself to be tricked by the Americans...
This discrepancy emphasized traditional East-West (Anglo-Francophone) antipathy, polarized policy and made much of the nation feel underrepresented and unlistened...
Establishing an interdisciplinary concentration would necessitate a radical change in the administration's philosophy concerning Latin American studies, "a development which I don't see happening. Harvard has had a strong reputation as a bastion of Anglo-Saxon history with a bias in European studies," says James Brennan, a Latin American history graduate student...
...back room at the British Museum in London. The Egyptians want the missing link reinstated. The British have agreed to loan them the fragment, but only on condition that it be returned to London within ten years and that it not be reincorporated into the monument. Fearing that Anglo-Egyptian relations may prove as hard to restore as pharaonic constructions, the Egyptians have hit upon a Solomonic solution: while negotiations continue, a temporary beard made of lightweight material will be installed to determine whether the public, and the Sphinx, can grow accustomed to a new look...
...scholarly edition of A Treatise of Heavenly Love, a 13th century meditation on virginity. Two virgins attend him: his pretty, unworldly teen-age daughter Tibba, named for a 6th century East Saxon princess, and Louise, his frumpy, incompetent, adoring assistant. (The manuscript is imaginary, and Wilson, who has taught Anglo-Saxon at Oxford, has fun cooking up swatches of 13th century English.) Giles and Tibba live in a bare house in Islington ruled by the dictates of his morbid sensitivity. There are no newspapers, and the radio is strictly a music box, Vivaldi preferred. Tibba thinks that the Whigs...