Word: english
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they have changed her material. Forsaking her early ballads, she now warbles four Dylan tunes (including It's All Over Now, Baby Blue and A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall), launches into French, and sings Where Have AH the Flowers Gone in German-as if her English would offend...
...blacks in swimming pools, theaters and schools, preferring to live under some monstrously multicolored rag instead of the Union Jack, preferring to point to speculative historical "records" of some primitive people as a record of antecedents instead of to England's glory and the brilliance of English-African settlements...
...French-born translator, I am surprised to read in TIME [Oct. 29] the epitaph of the French language. If English is spoken at many scientific gatherings, French is spoken at many others. At the United Nations there are many instances when the majority of speakers addressing the Assembly on a particular problem do so in French. I can assure you that the French-speaking communities all over the world have no reason to despair as to the vigor of the French language. A final point: you fail to mention that in Canada, French is the native and only tongue...
...advice to call an election. Yet Pearson was the man on the line, and the result was doubly shocking because his minority government had been relatively successful-pushing Canada's already booming economy to new peaks, improving federal-provincial relations, soothing the dangerous friction between French and English-speaking Canada, giving the country its own flag...
While guiding me throught the ancient English tea ceremony, ("Have you know me for seven years? If so then you may pour."), she told me how much she would like her books to be read: "I've told my agents not to worry if the Russians ever steal them. I've told them I'd like them to hide the books in lavatories, in the parks, anywhere that people might pick them up and steal them." She is quite jealous of every word, and every representation of her words. She carefully goes over each picture for her books with...