Word: saxonism
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...Rhodesias, is really a novelist's notebook, full of swiftly sketched scenes and characters who. not surprisingly, speak like people in Waugh fiction. There are astute little studies of key figures in African history, including Cecil Rhodes, an empire builder for whose financial chicanery and ''Anglo-Saxon'' racialism Waugh expresses intense distaste, and the tragic Lobengula, last king of the Matabele. for whom he has intense admiration. And there is a truly Waugh-like figure. "Bishop" Homer A. Tomlinson of New York, self-styled "King of the World," whose self-coronation in Dar-es-Salaam...
Wilson, whose best-known novels are Anglo-Saxon Attitudes and the recently published The Middle Age of Mrs. Eliot, singled out the experimental novelist, William Golding, for special praise, calling his The Lord of the Flies the best British novel published since the end of World...
That Anouilh made free with history-anticipated the use of forks in England, changed earldoms to dukedoms, implicated Henry far more in Becket's murder than he really was, gave Becket, what no one else has done for generations, a Saxon lineage-would matter little had all this given Anouilh's imagination greater force and scope. But he has played up trivialities while scamping essentials: Becket's great career as Chancellor is passed over; his clashes with Henry, on becoming Archbishop of Canterbury, go unused. Anouilh, again, oversimplifies character-amusingly enough when treating of minor figures...
...month spent in the pine cabin of an Alabama sharecropper during the summer of 1936. The book begins with 64 starkly beautiful photographs by Walker Evans, probing into the timeless peasant homes and sun-squinting faces of the Deep South, then ravaged by the Depression. Despite centuries of Anglo-Saxon inbreeding, the faces seem Latin: these same lean, starveling families could have emerged as easily from the caves of the Mezzogiorno or the baked hills of Mexico...
...Hecht-Hill-Lancaster's Cry Tough, a rough and rumble film about Puerto Ricans in New York, includes a scene in a bedroom occupied by Actor John Saxon and Actress Linda Cristal. In the U.S. she appears in a slip, but the version shot for export confines her wardrobe to one small pair of black panties, and allows the camera to meander athletically where it will. 'Everybody was kind of nervous" about Cry Tough's potential box office, explained one behind-the-scenes executive, so they asked for Actress Cristal's cooperation in order...