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During the nine-day period between the King's death and his burial, most Britons had had their meed of public grief. "There is now a widespread feeling that the formal solemnity is being overdone," observed the Manchester Guardian. "Gloom, gloom, gloom drips forth from the BBC," complained London's Daily Express. But as the King's body lay in state at Westminster, Londoners felt a strong sense of history and a deep compulsion to share it. "I said to myself, Elsie, you put on your hat, I said, and take a bus and go up there...
...holiday meed will be matuisined by Lowell on Monday night with Ben Johnson's "Epicone." The presentation will be preceded by a House dinner. Puritan asceticism will be set aside temporarily Tuesday as the Winthrop tradition of presidential dinner addresses continues. After his chat, President Conant will be entertained by a performance of "the Compulsory Marriage...
Should the U. S. indeed turn its back on Britain, such demonstrators, effigy hangers and isolationist Senators will no doubt receive their just meed of credit. But far more fateful than the influence of any of these will be another circumstance -the isolationist reunion of Cousins Bertie McCormick and Joe Patterson...
...stages, was less doctrinal than political, and was anyhow not altogether to be attributed to the amorous ways of Henry VIII, but was part and parcel of an economic motive which despoiled the monasteries. "Money, money maketh man," said old Pindar, and the lines which Langland gives to Lady Meed show that while he was "the Catholic Englishman par excellence, at once the most English of Catholic poets and the most Catholic of English poets: a man in whom Catholic faith and national feeling are fused in a single flame," he perceived a real threat to Christianity in the rapacity...
...have been taught to work hard and gain from our acres everything they could possibly produce-to nurture our animals thriftily and gain from nature the last meed of God-given fertility. That is God's own command to us, as we can read in the Bible any time. But now they tell us that we raise too much. They tell us to leave some of our acres bare and watch them go to weed, and they come up and give us a little money and shoot our cattle on the ground, saying the cattle are starving and there...