Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bradlee, the treasurer of the Ski Club and an active member of Phillips Brooks House, was majoring in English. He was a member of Hasty Pudding and the Fox Club and had served in the Air Force for two years. He was 24 years...
...Taranto, a fishing village on the instep of the Italian boot, the water was opalescent last July, as it always is when the Mediterranean sunlight hits the white bottom ooze and is reflected and refracted up to the surface. Thirty feet down, John M. Bullitt '43, professor of English, Master of Quincy House, sometime archeologist, onetime boxer and parachutist, and would-be aviator, was scuba diving...
Coventry was burned alive for possessing a copy of the Lord's Prayer in English. In 1531 a man was sent to the stake for eating meat on Friday. In 1556 "three silly women of the Isle of Garnsey" were burned for failing to attend church with sufficient regularity...
...British government had decided to establish universities based on the English model in its colonies as part of a program to prepare them for independence. Parry explains that many British educators like himself were invited by the government to participate. He became an administrator and teacher at University College of the West Indies. After his year at Harvard, Parry was asked by the British government to transfer to Nigeria where he helped to set up University College in Ibadan, Nigeria...
John Lithgow and James Paul's Histoire du Soldat is witty, charming, visually engaging--everything that Trouble is not. Stravinsky's score is a minor classic and the seven-piece ensemble plays with precision and grace. The English text by Michael Flanders and Kitty Black occasionally becomes more childish than childlike in its rhyming, but it captures the spirit of the original Russian folk tale more closely than the French text of C.F. Ramuz...