Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Well, why shouldn't I?" Why not indeed? At last report, she had sold one memoir to a Cologne magazine for $25,000 signed a contract with the Toronto Star for $7,000, earned $5,000 from the CBC, was negotiating for a $33,000 story with an English paper, and was asking $12,000 for other interviews. There was even talk of a movie...
...Lenore Beck, and her mother had died six months before, leaving an estate of $116,319.66. Soon after the wedding, the young couple took off for New York, where David changed his name to Merrick: a cross between Margulois and Garrick, the name of the most famous 18th century English actor. He never looked back. At 54, Merrick still hates his home town so violently that when he flies west he refuses to fly TWA because he thinks TWA planes pass over St. Louis...
...magazine, its editors make clear, no longer publishes make clear, no longer publishes the stuff produced in English C; consequently it no longer publishes much written by undergraduates. Convinced that its readers want commentary on every literary experiment and personality, the Advocate of the 1950's and 60's has printed Gregory Corso, Stephen Spender, Richard Wilbur, William Burroughs, dialogs with Brother Antoninus, and commentaries on Stevens, Faulkner, and Robert Lowell...
...dance!" Then the beginnings of an exit, such as you get on high-school stages when there's no room in the wings. It's clumsy, and unlike Malle. Some of these scenes might seem less vacuous to French ears deaf to the banal dialogue spoken in English. I suspect that one scene, where some Negro officials sit around sipping tea, is built almost entirely of phrases from English textbooks--"Pass the sugar," and so forth--and hence is an in-joke for any educated Frenchman...
...bibliography begins with ancient Greece and covers Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and America, through the modern period. The sections vary from 120 to 200 titles, giving the major works in French and German where equivalent coverage is unavailable in English. For upperclassmen in history this book is a must; history sophomores choosing a field of specialization with inadequate means of discerning between the alternatives it is also a valuable buy; but all students in the social sciences or humanities who need a concise reading list for background in any historical period will also find that this bibliography has much...