Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...models of the little warrior and his blimpish, pigtailed companion Obélix stare down from Christmas displays in department stores. More than 3,600,000 copies of eight hard-cover Astérix comic books have been sold, and several American publishers have proposed an English-language translation for the U.S. Cafés even stock the books for adults who want to chuckle while sipping their apéritifs...
...just oozing out of the scene. You're not sustaining it. You're gabbling. You haven't any idea how to play that. You're playing this like a Girl Guide." After the second late night, reported Hart, Julie came through with "that terrible English strength that makes you wonder why they lost India...
...television commercial, for instance, shows a "We try harder" balloon deflating slowly while a voice ticks off Hertz's advantages in available cars, widespread locations and electronic reservation service. Another agrees that Avis' "only No. 2" claim is "hard to argue with." Ally, a teaching fellow in English at the University of Michigan before he turned to ad writing, proudly produced another that asks: "No. 2 says he tries harder. Than...
Married. Neva Goodwin Rockefeller, 22, daughter of Banker David, a Radcliffe graduate and aspiring playwright; and Harvard English Professor Walter J. Kaiser, 35; in Pocantico Hills...
With the added electives, humanities courses now account for nearly half the Point's curriculum. The reason, says Lieut. Colonel Wilfred Burton, who teaches English, is that the Army exists to defend freedom and "preserve the dignity of man," but to do that, its officers must first "know the nature of man." Burton exposes students to such contemporary writers as W. H. Auden and Edward Albee, plays devil's advocate by roaring at his classes: "Army officers are just machines, aren't they? If they're told to go out and massacre the innocents, they...