Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With its woefully unseasoned actors, its melting-pot English, and its lack of anything resembling ensemble playing, the Lincoln Center Repertory Company is pitiably overmatched by the play. However, no American company would be likely to carry it off successfully. The heart of this comedy is heartlessness, and its surface is its substance. It demands dry, stylized cynicism. By temperament and training, this is alien to the American actor, who almost invariably tries to humanize his role and to bridle the most outrageous farce with the halter of naturalistic plausibility. And Wycherley's characters cannot be played as people...
Saigon's two English-language news papers - the Daily News and the Post -cover the Viet Nam war in considerable detail, but what really excites them is activity on the home front. Without leaving Saigon, their reporters uncover weirder and wilder stories than the battlefield could ever produce. Crime and sex are embellished with garbled gram mar, misspellings and typos. One typically zestful Post story began last week...
...antic English of the papers' translators leads to frequent apologies in print. Recently the Daily News ran a correction: "In yesterday's issue, due to a printing error in the item on the Philippines, 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Cost' was printed 'U.S. to Pay $6 Million Loot'; and on the same page in the item on Billy Graham, 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Ovation' was printed 'Asks Audience to Give L.B.J. Standing Nation.' We sincerely regret these misspellings and ask our readers to accept our sincere apologies...
William Alfred, professor of English and author of Hogan's Goat, is planning to take a sabbatical next year to write another play...
Some "very exciting changes" will be made next year in English 10, according to Alfred, not in the subject matter but in the way the course is taught. Alfred traditionally teaches the first semester of English 10. Next year, the first half will be given by Larry D. Benson, associate professor of English, while David D. Perkins, professor of English, will teach the second half...