Word: angus
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Verging on Hysteria. The essays' editors charge that the reformers fatally gear their standards to "the unlucky, the ungifted, the indolent or the otherwise lame." This shrill voice is echoed in every essay. Tory M.P. Angus Maud writes: "We must reject the chimera of equality and proclaim the ideal of quality." Novelist Kingsley Amis encapsulates mass education with the slogan, "more means worse," and blames student unrest at universities on the presence of the academically unfit. Psychologist Sir Cyril Burt offers statistics purporting to prove that skills in reading, spelling and arithmetic have dropped in the past 55 years...
...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL (four volumes), edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. A remarkable record of the political and intellectual history of Western Europe during the '30s and '40s by the author of Animal Farm...
...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL (four volumes). Edited by Sonia Orwell and Ian Angus. A remarkable record of the political and intellectual history of Western Europe during the '30s and '40s by the author of Animal Farm...
...COLLECTED ESSAYS, JOURNALISM AND LETTERS OF GEORGE ORWELL. Edited by Sonia Orwell and fan Angus. Four volumes (2,041 pages), Harcourt, Brace & World...
John Hanbury Angus Sparrow, a congenital skeptic and distinguished Oxford don whose obiter dicta have em braced such disparate subjects as the Profumo Affair, Lady Chatterley and the plagiarisms of a 17th century Polish poet, last week published his scholar's evaluation of the Warren Commission Report and its critics. A Latinist, an attorney by training and, for the last 15 years, warden of All Souls College-one of the most eminent posts in British academe-wartime Guardsman Sparrow, 61, concluded empirically that the Warren Report on the assassination must stand and that the "demonologists" who so often attack...