Word: berlitz
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During the next dark decade, Joyce badgered publishers in vain, cadged meals, cheated landlords, begged, scrounged and borrowed, taught English at Berlitz and clerked in a bank, suffered his first eye attacks, trundled his family from city to city, and drank steadily. During visits home, he would stumble to meet Stanislaus, and that sturdy keeper of his brother's conscience would shout: "Do you want to go blind? Do you want to go about with a little...
Thrilled but undazzled, Columnist Landers-who is the wife of Ballpoint Pen Executive Jules Lederer-took a Berlitz cram course in Russian, then flew off to see what makes Reds red-eyed. After three weeks she came back with a stack of well-filled notebooks, turned out a dozen columns on her impressions of Russia ("Everybody needed a bath and a haircut"; "Russians put a premium on brains"; "a warm, affectionate people"). Through all her copy ran familiar Landers material: "Ivan is worried about Irena's supervisor at the furniture factory. He has heard rumors-and she has been...
...friends thought he would be safer in Munich than in Berlin. He enrolled for German and English lessons at the Munich Berlitz school (he speaks no English, and has barely one sentence of German, learned by rote: "The censor understands nothing of love."). A U.S. foundation arranged an American visit for him; the International Rescue Committee helped him get a visitor's visa. His movie was about to open in New York...
...case of the student, by the time he reaches college age and unless he is contemplating a career in the foreign service or in the Berlitz school, he feels that going through the routine steps of learning another language is nothing but a crashing bore. If I really want to learn another language, he can say, I can go over to France or Germany, spend a summer there, and by the time I get back, I will be able to speak rings around my less fortunate companions in French...
...abysmal difference between the standard of living inside the U.S. oil compounds and outside. Few U.S. executives knew Spanish; as a result, their companies had little contact with the Latin American world beyond the fence. To Rockefeller the environment needed working on. Home again, he enrolled at the Berlitz School (Rockefeller Center class), studied Spanish two hours a day for three months. Returning to Venezuela as a director of Standard Oil's subsidiary, Creole Petroleum, he hopped from Creole compound to compound, persuaded the company to improve conditions on the outside, urged U.S. oilworkers to learn the language...