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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family tradition; one Madrid family lives in an apartment so small that their crèche completely fills it; they haul it up to the ceiling and sleep beneath. There are crèches in churches, in public squares, even in bars-a notable one is located in the English Bar in Nazareth...
...flesh. I like to catch people at it. I love the culture that proceeds out of the physical life of people; people as they are, without snobbery or pretensions. I'm a Jew from Russia who was born in this country," he adds. "But I'm more English than the English have been for 100 years...
Once interested, Harvardman ('17) Atkinson fixed his sights on an aisle seat in New York. Getting there involved five years of apprenticeship on two Massachusetts papers and a brief digression as English instructor at Dartmouth. By 1922 he was within strolling distance of Broadway, editing the Sunday book section of the Times; and three years later, when the Times's Drama Critic Stark Young resigned, Atkinson took Young's place...
...boosted their gross national product 100% (to $212 billion) in ten years, turn out 250 million tons of coal (17% of the world total), some 65 million tons of steel (20% of the total), 1,500,000 tons of copper, zinc and lead (16% of world total). Across the English Channel, Britain's economy this year alone grew some 8% to $68.8 billion...
...Armada, by Garrett Mattingly. An exciting history of the great sea battle, and of the climate of political and religious strife that brought the English and Spanish fleets into collision...