Word: english
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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From the smart sidewalks of Belgrave Square to the teeming front stoops of South London's slums, an English baby is known by the carriage he keeps. Massive, super-sprung, often a flashy lilac in color, for the Mayfair nanny and the working-class "mum" alike, the Big Pram has become in postwar Britain a symbol of status akin to the automobile in U.S. oneupmanship. But at least one winter baby in England next year is due for a hand-me-down. As Buckingham Palace prepared for the first child to be born to a reigning British monarch...
...sell them finished goods, are slowly pushing private merchants out of business. Each Sunday, workers are induced "voluntarily" to build roads, schools and clinics in a scheme grandly titled "Human Investment," and Touré is working hard to rip up tribal roots and create a Guinea nationalism. By requiring English as well as French instruction in schools, he hopes to create a bilingual nation that one day can lead both English-and French-speaking West Africa. Such a nation, Touré was insisting last week, would not be Communist, as his enemies and some of his old friends are beginning...
Though the South African government shrugged off the U.N. action as one more example of a nation the world misunderstood, the English-language Rand Daily Mail gloomily noted that "on each occasion the number of countries supporting the resolution gradually increases," and wondered how long the government "can go on implementing a racial policy that is arousing more and more opposition throughout the civilized world...
...Howell weeded the list down to six applicants, three of whom were interviewed by the symphony board. Last week Ward Howell's ideal org man of music was on his way to the West Coast. His name: George Adrian Kuyper, longtime manager of the Chicago Symphony, a sometime English instructor (University of Michigan), associate manager of the Boston Symphony and onetime amateur violinist. Kuyper, it turned out, was 60-ten years above the recommended...
...without the people. The humor exists in the tangled logic of the Jews' existence at this time of history, in late nineteenth century Russia. The existence itself had to be rationalized and joked about, and what we laugh at are people laughing at themselves. Acting out this world in English, then, is perhaps the only substitute for reading Sholom Aleichem in Yiddish, and it is improbable that anyone could put across the interpretation as well as Carnovsky does. He reaches the height of eloquence through silence, as Paul Richards did on a smaller scale in the first two works...