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...What the writer Irving Howe called the “Age of Conformity” was not quite that. The germ of rock ‘n roll was there, and Alfred Kinsey uncovered sex lives that veered a tad from the biblical standard....
...Bailey’s Roth is shaped by having entered adulthood in the early 1950s, what the critic Irving Howe called the “Age of Conformity”, and is forever looking to slough off the bonds of convention....
...Just ask the remains of Norman St John-Stevas, or battle-scarred survivors of her reign like Geoffrey Howe. Those who were against her were also for her....
...These were the sort of homilies that she remembered hearing from her father, Alfred Roberts, the Grantham grocer who shed his Liberal heritage to become a respected local Conservative....
...Born in 1925 in Grantham, Lincolnshire, Margaret Hilda Roberts was the younger daughter of a corner-shop grocer, Alfred Roberts, and his wife Beatrice....
...Alfred Kazin, whose recently published journals are a remarkable document of American intellectual life, was a much finer reader of individual texts....
...David Alfred Thomas, 1st Viscount Rhondda, “coal king” and Liberal politician, born in Aberdare. An exemplar of the 19th-century coal and iron barons. 4....
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