Word: english
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...measured cadence, the sepulchral timbre and the Teutonic-accented English were all familiar. But there was a rare note of urgency in Henry Kissinger's keynote address at the Brussels conference on NATO. Excerpts...
...what became known as the New Criticism, an attempt to apply scientific method to analysis of literary values. Teaching briefly in China and, from 1939, for more than two decades at Harvard, he turned his attention to primary education and became the world's leading proselyte of Basic English, a boiled-down, 850-word version of the language that he considered easily learnable by foreigners...
Speaking in halting English, the lama told a press conference that Buddhism, particularly the distinctive Tibetan form, has something to offer the materialistic West: "Through centuries, we have acquired some knowledge of mind." He added, in St. Patrick's, that "one of the most important things is compassion. You cannot buy compassion in one of New York's big shops...
...propose to the Prime Minister two names, in order of preference, to fill each bishop vacancy. Runcie is the first Archbishop of Canterbury to be selected this way, rather than through a series of political consultations. The new procedure is a step toward fuller independence of the established English church from the machinery of state, something Runcie favors...
...patience with the artsy floral constructions ("Zen and all zat") cherished by garden clubs. She never belonged to such an organization. "Sometimes," her husband recalls, "as I sat quietly in my corner, watching her throw flowers at each other, it looked as though she were playing darts in an English...