Word: babeling
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...historically almost deaf to the need for foreign-language study, may be emerging from its soundproof suite in the Tower of Babel. A report last week by the Office of Education sharply defined the deficiencies that the nation must correct to overcome its obstinate monolingualism...
...plans similar to the third-grade-through-high-school proposal of Conference Member Mary P. Thompson, curriculum consultant for Connecticut's Fairfield schools. By 1955, says the report. 270,000 children were learning foreign languages in U.S. elementary schools and that was as many as were arduously decoding Babel in all the nation's colleges and universities...
...your May 5 "Titans of Babel": Thank gawd, someone -mainly Elsa Maxwell and Jack Paar -had the nerve (I'd rather say '"guts") to bring that poor-white-trash Walter Winchell down...
...heard was Elsa Maxwell sassily telling Host Jack Paar that Walter Winchell had never voted; but this erroneous remark set off an off-camera scratching match between Columnist Winchell, Maxwell and Paar that was as ludicrous as anything visible on TV. See TV & RADIO, The Titans of Babel...
...another moving target. But not until one evening a fortnight ago did the gaily irresponsible Elsa turn her gusty gall on one of the few name-and-I-droppers in the world who, pound for pound, can outgossip and outfeud her-Walter Winchell. The battle between the titans of Babel began when Host Jack Paar cued Guest Maxwell with a remark that Walter Winchell "is after me." Not waiting to learn how, Elsa expanded like an enraged blowfish, crying: "He's never voted and never registered! Is that a good patriotic American or not? He is phonier than...