Word: britons
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...studio recently, waiting to hear a familiar voice. When it came out of the control-room loudspeaker, the voice was still as sonorous and commanding as ever. It immediately recalled memories and stories of early TIME ventures into radio: the 1924 show, called Pop Question, conducted by the late Briton Hadden, co-founder of TIME; NewsCasts in 1928 and NewsActing in 1929, both started by TIME'S President Roy Larsen, then TIME'S circulation manager and radio producer. The programs evolved into the famous MARCH OF TIME series of radio news dramatizations. The voice that we heard...
...instability in the U.S., the overdraft in London is a sign of strength. The larger the overdraft the greater the confidence the bank has reposed in its client. To go to the moneylender is a virtual admission that one is not trusted and has poor credit. In this fashion, Britons-notoriously acute bankers-have happily muddled along for centuries. No responsible Briton is exposed to the shock experienced by the American who overdraws: to . have his check marked "Insufficient Funds" and ignominiously bounced, his account stiffly fined...
Face & No Face. Why do British popular newspapers run so out of character with the country in which they are published? While most Americans still think of the typical Briton as an educated, devoted, clucking reader of the Times, only 4% of Britain's adult population have attended school until they were 18 or older. (Only since 1947 has Britain had a compulsory education law requiring school attendance up to the age of 15.) As a result, Britain's new and fast-growing middle-educated class has still not developed a press in its own image. Until...
Homer's epic story has been greatly shortened and considerably amended by a battery of writers (Ben Hecht and Irwin Shaw plus three Italians and a Briton). But the Odyssey has been tampered with before and suffered no appreciable damage. Purists will find cause to complain in the sprucing up of Ulysses' character; he emerges less a calculating Greek warrior than an upstanding cowboy hero outfitted with chiton instead of chaps, sandals instead of saddlebags...
...basic dilemma remains unresolved, and in this first novel. Briton Isabel Quigly maintains it for so long that the plot caves in on her characters. With Neddy's return only days away, Celia is belatedly asking her lover: "What do people do, Arcangelo, in a situation like ours? What do they do? ... Catholics, I mean." The distinct suggestion is that the best the star-crossed lovers can hope for is some sort of intercontinental ménage-á-trois. Author Quigly's story ranges from romantic intensity to limp sentimentality but in her evocation of the sensuousness...