Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...HANDFUL OF THIEVES, by Nina Bawden (Lippincott; $3.50). In an effort to catch a cagey con man and robber, five English youngsters turn thieves and almost end up in jail. Exciting and amusing...
...TIME has, as usual, nailed the head squarely in its article on the English business malaise. There are the "city" men in bowlers and striped trousers, far too many of them. Then there are the social inferiors: "commerce" men. Until the class system is removed from business, the worker will continue to meet management with a built-in grudge, and commerce will not attract the level of businessmen that it needs. As an itinerant Englishman, I find the North American system far healthier. R. SANDERSON Montreal...
...Everybody Else: The English are a nation of flunkies, the Germans a nation of pigs. Italy does not exist...
...came to Harvard in 1966 and has since been doing all the graphic and exhibition design at the VAC, as well as starting this year a course of his own on the theory and work-shop of graphic design, Vis Stud 136. He is shy about his command of English but need not be about the excellence of his work. His posters for the Center's lecture series and his exhibition designs in the hall on the third floor mark some of the finest work available in the greater Harvard area...
Harvard audiences have heard Borges recite Latin, French and German extemporaneously and translate all into flawless English. He quotes as readily from The Divine Comedy as from Beowulf. He has taught graduate students Anglo-Saxon, lectured at the University of Texas, made a hobby of Old Norse poetry and extended his metaphysical range to Egypt to Arabia to China...