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...some ways his own life has paralleled that of his subject. He was born in the American Midwest only a few years after Eliot, was educated privately in the East, and like Eliot - though much later in life - emigrated to England, married there and became an Anglo-Catholic. This commonality serves him well as a cultivated cicerone to the poet's life, though when Matthews discusses Eliot's extreme religiosity, a note of parochial coziness sometimes slips...
...sense can even the most Anglo-Irish of Dublin suburbs be geographically defined as England. All of which leads me to suspect that Mr. Shapiro is trying to explain away his lack of preparation for any exam on modern fiction by his rehashing of this most recent Harvard molehill. Patrick J. Ryan, S.J. Tutor in Eliot House
Judge Sirica is our modern David who slew Goliath Nixon by steadfastly insisting that our country's laws be upheld and respected in the Anglo-American tradition, rather than be flexed and molded to meet the needs of "FixIt Nixon...
After Brussels, Kissinger flew to London, where he spoke to the Pilgrims, a prestigious Anglo-American society. In a remarkable address that evoked comparison with his "New Atlantic Charter" speech in Manhattan last February, Kissinger offered an eloquent assessment of the state of American-European relations...
...tour to see how his hybrid rice, nicknamed "Magic," is faring as England's gift to the Green Revolution. Hamo's goddaughter, Alexandra, is following rather the same route. Hers is the sort of pilgrimage 21-year-old girls from middle-class Anglo-American homes embarked upon in the late 1960s, involving swamis in India and communes in Morocco, with Tolkien as an all-sufficient Baedeker of the soul. In Goa, these two breeds of latter-day ma gician, the scientist and the hippie, cross paths. For an instant each one senses a promise of salvation...