Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sound" of the Voice, inaugurated last month, and so far audible only on English-language broadcasts, is adapted from the highly successful "magazine formats" now popular in U.S. radio and TV-an amalgam of music, news, discussion, comedy and anecdotes, with hardly any item running for more than four minutes...
...school, the ruinous inflation of the 1920s was sweeping Germany. Deciding to become a teacher, he left Ebingen for a small Catholic academy in a nearby town, where he got a first-class education, mastered the organ, piano and violin, and became something of a linguist (today he speaks English, French, Spanish and Italian). After graduating in 1925, the young teacher found himself only another among Germany's millions of unemployed. But he had taken to writing poetry, and this proved to have a practical value. A millowner in Ebingen read some of Kurt's published verse, was so impressed...
Evans Harrington, a novelist and member of the English department, taught at Ole Miss throughout the Meredith affair. Harrington is one of the leaders of the Ole Miss chapter of the Association of American University Professors, which has fought a series of battles for academic freedom for the last four years. Just this summer, the AAUP got the courts to throw out the clause of the Mississippi loyalty oath which requires teachers in state schools to list all the organizations they have belonged to or contributed to in the last five years. The court case was surprisingly simple...
...Thanksgiving Day, 27,000 fans streamed out of Harvard Stadium after watching Boston Latin lose to Boston English 20-18 in the traditional football battle between two ancient high school rivals. Many of the spectators crossed the Larz Anderson Bridge into Cambridge, intent on taking MBTA subways and buses home. But the buses and subways could not handle the sudden influx at once, and as the largely teen-aged crowd backed up in Harvard Square, it turned into a surly mob. Beatings, purse-snatchings, and acts of vandalism broke out all over the Square, and before a hastily assembled force...
...increases have been across-the-board, the situation won't be too serious;" Mrs. Hillgarth said, "on the other hand, if applications to say the English Department have doubled, then obviously we'll be in terrible trouble." So far, she revealed, the distribution seems fairly even...