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Contemporary Britain: A Survey With Texts
It is the English whom Paul Keating, the acerbic former premier of Australia,
characterized in an interview this year as a mix of arrogance and comic
Blimpishness. It was England which, in the words of one of its yobs arrested two
weeks ago in ...
2
Martin Amis: The Biography
Hitchens inthe closing paragraph of hisarticlepresents the 'old Kingsley' 'ashe
declined intoasort of choleric, empurpled Blimpishness, culminating in his
denunciationof Nelson Mandela asa practitioner ofRed Terror.The lessons here
ought ...
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The Gold Crusades: A Social History of Gold Rushes, 1849-1929
He was a pale and slender fellow, for he had not yet assumed the blimpishness
of figure that would later accentuate the blimpishness of his politics. At eighteen,
he was making a hundred pounds a week in the diamond trade without ...
Professor Max Beloff, of Oxford, in a letter of virtuoso Blimpishness published
recently in a Sunday paper, attacked a proposal by some Oxford undergraduates
to set up a representative Students' Council which would discuss university
matters ...
Socialist Vanguard Group, 1961
From the Hardcover edition.
The sense that the war effort is not 100 per cent, is usually conveyed by such
words as " complacency," " Blimpishness," " slackness " and " apathy." These
words correspond to forms which suspicion assumes between two classes of
society.
Britain: “Blimpishness” in, 151–55, 157–59; in Boer War, 153–54; cricket, 99, 154,
209, 100, 101; as Great Power, 97–98; House of Lords, 314; on Korean War, 193
–94; London Underground bombings, 38; Marxism in, 127, 157; middle class in ...
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British Generalship on the Western Front 1914-1918: Defeat ...
Undoubtedly this Blimpishness, epitomised in the post-war Low cartoons and the
more recent Blackadder television series, was one facet of the army which
underpinned the great resolve and stubborn will to win required in modern wars
and ...
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John Osborne: Vituperative Artist
... Every time Osborne opens his mouth, whether in The Observer or on television
, there emerges the most extraordinary combination of intelligent apercu, dreary
blimpishness and inconsequential drivel—and arrogance, above all arrogance.
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British Intelligence in the Second World War: Security and ...
... division of MI 5 which was responsible for the surveillance of subversive
activities. Noting that this division was very well informed, particularly on the
Communist side, the minute continued: 'There is certainly no blimpishness and
the attitude ...
Francis Harry Hinsley, C. A. G. Simkins, 1990
WIADOMOŚCI, KTÓRE ZAWIERAJĄ SŁOWO «BLIMPISHNESS»
Sprawdź, o czym dyskutuje się w prasie krajowej i zagranicznej oraz jak jest stosowane słowo
blimpishness w wiadomościach.
Her Tory: Margaret Thatcher biography dissects her legacy
... Daily Telegraph and is also known for his sparkling columns in The Spectator, pieces that give blimpishness a good name because there is a ... «The Australian, Lip 13»
Alas Prince Harry - or should that be Captain Wales? - is as much a …
... US military cliché that seems his lingua franca (forgive the Blimpishness, but our army, like everything else, sounds ever more Americanised). «The Independent, Sty 13»
'Compassionate Tory' is not a contradiction in terms
As a tribe, they often speak a private language, a strange and off-putting hybrid of technocracy, ideology, and embattled Blimpishness. «Telegraph.co.uk, Paz 12»
Cotman in Normandy, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London
The temptation is to dismiss the poet as a bit of an old buffer, his views coloured by the Little-England blimpishness of his day. As the situation ... «The Independent, Paz 12»
The late Christopher Hitchens
So too do the blimpishness and instinctive reaction. Eric “helped me understand the Tory mentality, all the better to combat it and repudiate it”, ... «International Socialism Journal, Mar 12»
Janet Street-Porter: Two dinosaurs, two outdated world-views
My real problem with Top Gear isn't Clarkson's loud shirts or his contrived blimpishness, but the studio interludes where three self-satisfied ... «Independent, Lis 08»
