Word: english
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...million for controlling pollution in Cracow; he also pledged support for a move to reschedule some of the nation's foreign debt. In Hungary he offered $25 million in economic aid, $5 million for an environmental center, a $1.5 million a year Peace Corps project to help teach English, and the end of trade restrictions...
Bush's plan to send in Peace Corps volunteers to teach English in Hungary served as a nice counterpoint to the dropping of Russian-language requirements in that nation's schools. But the second language there has traditionally been German. The historic role of Germany, however, is a troublesome obstacle to what Bush referred to as "making Europe whole again." Poles in particular have suffered from German expansionism, stretching from the Teutonic Knights of the 13th century to Hitler's invasion 50 years ago. To the extent that the E.C. becomes more unified, fears of a resurgent Germany are likely...
...might occur among children with a religious bent: trading rabbi cards. Since they were introduced last August, more than 400,000 have been sold at 20 cents apiece, or 99 cents for a pack of five. On the back of each 4-in. by 6-in. card, printed in English and Hebrew, are the rabbi's dates of birth and death, the books he published and details about his life...
...relies on grimaces and gestures from The Fly, topping them off with a pantomime of catching and eating some insect. At best the show skitters along the surface of a script rich in unexplored depths. If A Midsummer Night's Dream is the most perfectly plotted comedy in the English language, Twelfth Night may be the most profound: its main subjects are death, madness, the delights of cruelty, the self-deluding and dreamlike quality of sexual attraction, the randomness of justice. Guskin's troupe makes the play merely sprightly, an ingratiating but seemingly minor work...
...father, the ever-cool psychiatrist, becomes completely incoherent. "They don't...six hours...Israel...my back...outrageous...Gate 34..." What dad? Speak English...