Word: blitz
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enthusiasm of a man who has fought for years to introduce "remote languages" (e.g., Chinese, Arabic, Swahili) into high schools. The China-born son of American missionaries, Fenn has spent 40 years teaching in the U.S. and China. During World War II Yale drafted him to help establish its "blitz" language program, which crammed U.S. soldiers with conversational Chinese in four months. Many of the high schools that have introduced Chinese have done so under Fenn's prodding-and most of them use the textbook developed at Yale...
Fenn's blitz is described by one teacher as "memorize, memorize, memorize. Listen and memorize, say and memorize, see and memorize."Even the most enthusiastic Thayer student realizes he will eventually sigh: "Wo hen lei [I am very tired...
...March 1961, after a two-year search for a minister, Broadway Presbyterian's congregation voted to "call" (invite) Merriam as their next pastor. Despite misgivings about his fundamentalism, the presbytery approved the choice and almost immediately found reasons to regret it. Merriam brought his huge German shepherd Blitz into the pulpit at a children's service. He earned a brief notoriety by tape-recording a telephone conversation with a State Department official about the problems of an exile from Iran, then playing the tape-including the official's off-the-cuff criticisms of Iranian corruption...
...reading publicly, and then he was magnificent. (An exception to all categories, of course, is his delightful "cat" poetry. He read a charming sort of Browning monologue given by an alley cat named Morgan, who wandered into the offices of Faber and Faber in London during the Little Blitz...
...Pudding Lane to Newgate, the City was gradually rebuilt-most of its churches by Sir Christopher Wren. But by World War II it had become more and more a place in which to work rather than to live; the nighttime population was down to 8,000, and after the blitz there were only 5,000, many of them caretakers and night watchmen. But there were still the remains of 40 churches. What to do with them...