Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Kenneth S. Lynn '45, professor of English, is resigning from Harvard to become professor of American Studies at the newly-created, predominantly negro Federal City College in Washington...
...Beta Kappa has announced the selection of the Junior Eight. The eight are: Robert A. Bush, Lowell House, History and Literature; Jonathan C. Cleary, Eliot, Folklore and Mythology; Warren D. Goldfarb, Lowell, Philosophy; Charles T. Hopkins Jr., Winthrop, English...
Also, Arthur J. Jacobson, Lowell, Social Studies; Harry E. Shaw, Leverett, History and Literature; Simeon I. Taylor, Quincy, Biological Sciences; and Peter H. Wirth, Adams, English...
Just examines the now familiar ambiguities of the war with detail that is not often found in books of this kind. The language barrier, he notes, is so great that neither English nor Vietnamese can be successfully translated one into the other. He points out that since Vietnamese verbs do not change tense, the Vietnamese sense of time is indefinite. More important, perhaps, is the absence of the personal pronoun "I." Because Vietnamese speak of themselves in the third person, "a man's identity, his sense of himself, is always in relation to something, or someone else-usually something...
Warner Bros.-Seven Arts has Kenneth Hyman, 39, as its executive vice president in charge of production. Like Dick Zanuck, Ken Hyman was to the studio born: his father Eliot is chairman of the board of Warner Bros.-Seven Arts. Married to an English girl, Ken Hyman is a relaxed Anglophile who openly wishes his work would allow him to live in London. As a compromise of sorts, he had his script-cluttered Hollywood office decorated in dark-paneled English-club style. Hyman first earned his stars as an independent producer in 1965 with The Hill, an acerbic antiwar film...