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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hell of show biz and the perils of excessive mammary development. Anne Welles, a small-town girl and frigid Radcliffe graduate, escapes her destiny of "shrivelling into another New England old maid" by coming to The Big City. In New York she melts into the arms of a handsome English writer and becomes a TV commercial star a la Betty Furness...
...national language. Not only are university libraries small and texts scarce but book collections that do exist require fluency in a foreign language on the part of the user. The 20,000 volume central library at Hue, assembled with great difficulty, is more than 50 in French, Chinese and English. Moreover students without fluency in a foreign language are restricted in their programs by the fact that several courses taught by foreign professors are given in the native language of the instructor...
...German ja, both meaning yes. What about a quadruple redundancy? For a hint, Borgmann aims his reader toward southwest England. After a few dutiful hours of brain racking, it is permissible to turn to the answers in the back of the book. In The Story of English, writes Borgmann, Mario Pei mentions a ridge near Plymouth called Torpenhow Hill. "This name consists of the Saxon tor, the Celtic pen, the Scandinavian haugr (later transformed into how) and the Middle English hill, all four of them meaning hill. Hence the modern name of the ridge is actually Hillhillhill Hill...
Truc in the Alley will carry exterior decorations for men--French capes, English riding jackets, suits from Bond St.--"but cheap!" emphasizes Cy Harvey, "cheap so the students can buy them...
...This poem won first prize in the Harvard Summer School Poetry Contest. The contest elicited 65 entries and was judged by Thomas Babe '63, teaching fellow in English, Neil Rudenstine, tutor in English, and Fred Anderson, instructor in Expository Writing...