Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...dance, architecture, painting, herb gardening, and one who was expert at building boats inside bottles. "We thought we had tried about everything," recalls Bill, "and in would come yet another professor." All the children were trilingual, or at least bilingual. Bill learned to speak Spanish and French along with English. He also learned to play the piano and-as his detractors are fond of emphasizing-that reactionary instrument, the clavichord...
Buckley père revered, above all, the English language. "Father was always a language purist," says Buckley. "Bad grammar was for him like dirt under the fingernail." Buckley developed his father's respect for words, and used them freely, furiously and all too literally. While attending Millbrook School in New York, he appeared uninvited at a faculty meeting and proceeded to complain about his teachers' politics-too liberal, of course. Even his father felt constrained to admonish him: "I like very much your attitude of having strong convictions, but you will have to learn to be more...
...difficult to appreciate the nostalgia of the public-which included John Kennedy-for the place and the musical called Camelot. A golden blend of song and story, it celebrated the fabled, far-off landscape of the English soul, where it never rained till after sun down and where by royal decree summer lingered through September. By Broadway standards, no musical ever had a more regal lineage. Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe, the creators of My Fair Lady, did book and lyrics, based on T. H. White's brilliant tetralogy The Once and Future King. Moss Hart directed...
Wald was elected to a three-year term at the June meeting. He and Reuben A. Brower, professor of English, are the two Harvard faculty members among the 40 Trustees...
This procedure is designed to promote mutual understanding in a community rather than automatically pitting one side against the other. It worked for one visiting Harvard student. A Negro, he arrived in London with an English friend, and began to look for a place to stay the night. Exhausted from his trip, he stayed in the car while his friend went to find a hotel room. He finally found a room in a small West London hotel, but when the American entered the hotel, he was told he could not stay because he was colored. The English friend complained...