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...Anglo-Saxon swear words no longer evoke their original imagery or symbolism. Avatar tries to show by parody the hypocrisy of people who commonly speak these words, but refuse to allow them in print. I find most of Avataramusing, especially the classified ads, because they are so outrageous...
...upcoming volume of Borges' selected poems. The pair is trying to avoid the "maybe inevitable mistake" made by Borges' previous translators: "Latin words are natural in Spanish, but may be unnatural and far-fetched in English." The problem is to find a natural blend of Latinate and Anglo-Saxon words...
Between the abundant yuks and cackles squirms the sadistic little tale of Mortimer Lucas Griffin, an all-Canadian boy in London who has the misfortune to be born white, Anglo-Saxon and Protestant in a time when the values of disaffected minorities are on the upswing. Cocksure's premise is that the special pleadings of minority groups-Jews, Negroes, artists, homosexuals-are funny. So Richler finds humor in the way Jacob Shalinsky, messianic editor of an obscure journal called Jewish Thought, hounds Mortimer with the wily accusation that he is really a secret Jew. And he finds rich irony...
Church History 125. Origins of the New Parochialism. M., W., F., Sun. at 8. Assistant Professor P. Jungle Corkery. An attempt to use sociological "method" to trace the growth and progress of anti-rebelliousness in selected Anglo-Saxon communities of the 8th century A.D., and to relate the growth of this phenomenon to the current resurgence of New Parochialism as a way of life...
...Belgium, The Netherlands, West Germany, Scandinavia, and even Portugal and Poland. One U.S. boutique owner crossed the Atlantic to buy mod dresses on sale for $3.60, figuring that their London labels would enable her to charge $30 for them at home. Marveled the Daily Mail: "London has become an Anglo-Saxon version of an Eastern bazaar, where Continentals admire our traditional quality, pity our poverty, wonder aloud how we can do it at the price, and pay in currencies which make the pound look like a sick piaster...