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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...prodding from West Germany. Erhard thought that it might be a good time to try for some progress toward political union of the Six. Some observers were even speculating that France might be willing to let Britain reapply for Market membership. But le grand Charles does not yet need English allies. He smoothly informed Erhard that the Common Market's first order of business was to "implement" the Luxembourg agreement-in other words: don't tempt France to walk out again...
...Wilson to be an authority in my field," Nabokov began, and went on to recall their old association: "I invariably did my best to explain to him his monstrous mistakes of pronunciation, grammar and interpretation" of Russian. And, just to finish the job: "Mr. Wilson's use of English is also singularly imprecise...
...York and San Juan. It runs Drew Pearson and Victor Riesel, translated into Spanish, and U.P.I, and A.P. copy on Latin America, along with several columns of chitchat entitled "Chispa-zos" (Sparks), "Machetazos" (Machete Blows) and "Consultorio Sentimental" (Advice to the Lovelorn). Its uncompromising editorials, written in both English and Spanish, champion causes dear to its readers: a civilian review board for the police department; a crackdown on slumlords, credit gouging and labor racketeering...
Regional speech patterns vary, but many Negroes-and whites living in similar circumstances of cultural isolation-speak a nonstandard English (linguists call it "dialectolalia") with common characteristics. They may slur words as in "sawrat" (it's all right), "sisfirshear" (it's his first year) and "smothertam" (some other time). The sounds of f and r may be dropped as "hep yo sef" or "sistah." The th sound turns to f: "bofe" for both. Errant grammar includes "he be absent," "he do," "my mother, she done gone...
Like New Shoes. Now, in such large urban school systems as those of Miami, Detroit and Washington, D.C., in adult-education programs in Philadelphia and New Orleans, and in numerous colleges, English teachers are trying not to erase "down home" accents but to add standard English as a "second language" -to provide Negroes with what a New York City school official calls "a new pair of shoesyou wear your shiny new ones for a job interview and put on your old comfortable ones when you get home at night...