Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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SHAKESPEARE WALLAH. An Indian playboy (Shashi Kapoor) wavers between his movie-star mistress (Madhur Jaffrey) and an English actress (Felicity Kendal) who is touring the provinces with a troupe of tatty Shakespeareans. The real show is U.S. Director James Ivory's delicate study of fading British influence in India...
...make anemone by speaking with too much condor or sound as if I'm yakking or harpying about trivia, but still llama bit put out at your aukward article about the Ghana fitchewation. Every minotaur language seems to be losing whatever lynx remain with the deer old English we once gnu and loved. It used to comfort ocelot to pick up TIME and read straight-forward copy without being exposed to the whims of devilfish writers. And, alas, even TIME is now tapiring off in a manner that has us aphid linguiphiles so worked up we could spitz! Weasel...
Twelve members of the English Department will be absent for all or part of next year. The loss to the Department appears temporary since nine of these men will be coming back, but the mass exodus has more permanent effects for English majors who will be Seniors next year...
...which professors decide to leave Harvard on short notice to take advantage of grants and appointments, but the bulk of absences, next year, will be the result of sabbaticals and leaves of absence falling due simultaneously for a large number of professors. The lack of planning coordination within the English Department has been increased by the two-year rotation of chairmen. It should be the duty of the chairman of the department to see that sabbaticals are spread evenly over the years and to avoid creating professorial gaps in any one area...
...English Department has not been the first to suffer absentee casualties; last year a number of Government concentrators felt that it had been unwise to schedule sabbaticals for Professors Kissinger, Hoffmann, and Bowie during the same year. What seems to be lacking is coordination between the departmental chairman and his staff. A tentative schedule of sabbaticals and leaves of absence could be drawn up to prevent gaps in the curriculum, while changes of plans could be worked out among Faculty members...