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Russell as lechery and Russell as anti-christ have become faded in recent years. Succeeding these images has been the figure of "better red than dead" Bertie, grand marshal of Anglo-American comsymps. Because he cuts this unsavoury figure, Russell's views have generally received the same response as his ideas on sex and religion...
Providing linguistic-historical comments on the hush-hush Anglo-Saxon words which occur with distinct regulari- ty in Cancer will be Morton Bloomfield, professor of English. The minister who will participate is Robert W. Haney '56, author of Comstockery in America, who is associated with the First Unitarian Church of Boston...
Despite his Anglo-exotic surname, Johnny Hallyday is thoroughly French, and his fans easily outnumber De Gaulle's. The highest-paid popular singer on the Continent ($1,000 a night), he is the idol of a range of foot stompers including old burghers, young nobility, teen-aged renegades from Paris' fashionable 16th arrondissement, and black-jacketed teddy boys (blousons noirs). More than 2,500,000 of his records have sold in the past year, a phenomenon in France, where a 45-r.p.m. single costs $2. This week, he begins a feature movie called Les Parisiennes (written by Roger...
...threat to England's island security. But Britain's decision to join the European Common Market brings to an end the historic British policy of "splendid isolation" from the Continent. Last week, as British Transport Minister Ernest Marples flew to Paris to open the first Anglo-French talks on the subject since 1883, the question was no longer whether there ought to be a direct cross-Channel link, but rather whether the link should be a tunnel or a bridge...
...writer not known to have been guilty of science fiction sets his novel in the 1970s, the reader knows that a message is coming, probably on wings of allegory. British Novelist Angus Wilson, who has until now been content to annotate skillfully the thesis that people are unbelievably nasty (Anglo-Saxon Attitudes), sets the time of his new novel halfway between now and 1984, and the place is the London Zoo. Only a Symbol Simon could fail to read a message here...