Word: englishwoman
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...EVENING OF THE HOLIDAY, by Shirley Hazzard. A young novelist has chosen her words with such delicacy and precision that even the trite theme of a holiday affair between an inhibited, not-so-young Englishwoman and a smooth, not-so-young Italian architect has become a haunting and poetic tale...
Outwardly, there is little to distinguish Lady Jackson from any other chic Englishwoman with a disarming smile. She punctuates her conversation with "jolly," "bloody," and an ever-ready laugh, yet speaks in a torrent of determination when the subjects nearest to her are brought...
...business and art worlds. Such privacy, however, is increasingly hard for him to maintain. He has been deluged by a flood of requests and offers since the London sale of Titus, including thousands of pleas for handouts, dozens of propositions from art pushers, and an offer from an Englishwoman to sell him a 150-year-old pub. By dint of his business acumen, his acquisition of great art and his generosity in lending that art through the Norton Simon Foundation, he has become a national figure?whether he wanted...
...assistance." Dawn at Reyn's Cop describes how history catches up with a young Boer who kills a Kaffir servant and discovers to his horror that the law is seriously prepared to demand a white life for a black one. The Picnic depicts an Englishwoman stupefied to find herself in love with an Arab...
...Since contacts are cheaper and take less time to grind on the Continent than in England, many Britons have them made to order while vacationing there-and thus are subject to customs duties on the lenses when they come home. According to a possibly apocryphal tale, when one returning Englishwoman swore she had nothing to declare at London airport, the customs inspector tapped her right eyeball and inquired sweetly: "Are you sure...