Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...five-man English singing group will give a two-hour concert on May 6 to open this year's Freshman Jubilee Weekend. The long-haired "Animals" are well-known for such recordings as House of The Rising Sun, We Gotta Get Outta This Place and Bo Diddley...
Part of his reserve results from the language problem. He speaks fluent but heavily accented English (Harvard comes out Ar-VAR), and when his mind races ahead of his vocabulary, he has to throw in a French word and sculpt the idea with his hands. In private conversation, Lacouture listens with intense concentration, ignoring the steak before him; then leaning forward to hear, he pulls his Dick Tracy nose, and nods emphatically as he understands the point. A smile breaks easily and often across his narrow face, accentuating the deep wrinkles of a Chet Huntley. Girls find him lovable...
...really undesrstand until you see forty-five of the brightest Negro students in Charleston below grade level according to national standards in reading and mathematics and unable to write a coherent paragraph. (Most had never written an essay in English, which in Charleston consists of twelve years of grammar...
...Corps' chief psychiatrist. Dr. Joseph T. English, will meet with students from the Divinity School on Thursday to propose that they take a "citizen sabbatical," combining service in the Peace Corps with their studies...
Until the recent rise of book-jacket specialists, English publishers frequently paid recognized artists to design jackets. Since commercialized publicity jackets have proven ineffective in England, publishers have stressed tasteful, artistic appeals to a discriminating public. Kleist's favorite designer is Edward Ardizzone, an illustrator of children's books who Paints "typically English, Dickensian characters" in subduded watercolors...