Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Camp McCauley airstrip near Linz, Austria, a Russian two-engine light bomber bounced on to the field, overshot the strip and crumpled into a fence. Out climbed a handsome Soviet air force lieutenant, English grammar in hand. "I is Russian pilot," he said. "Where is Linz...
...also true that some of the most brilliant writing in Faustus comes in these unexpected asides. The section describing Adrian's deal with the Devil (he sells himself body & soul for 24 years of creative greatness) is a tour de force-translated from archaic German into archaic English-that is a unique reading experience in or out of context. So is the subtle, near-perfect sketch of the fast-talking music impresario Saul Fitelberg...
Catalina is not to be taken seriously; every chapter asserts this, and the last scenes, with Catalina having become a famous actress, make it more than plain. The book is a suave and ironic rewriting of the classic morality tales of English literature, its lesson as plain as the moral of A Christmas Carol or The Great Stone Face. Since it is written by a craftsman, Catalina has enough interest and enough humor to keep it going, and not too much of anything-not too much of the supernatural to be unbelievable, not too much wit to tax the reader...
Evolution and English. "Imagine my delight," said Shaw when he received an inscribed first edition of Professor Wilson's rather heady treatise. Wilson, before getting down to the origins and philosophy of languages, had rehearsed the old controversy of natural selection v. creative evolution, the better to drub the Darwinians. Full of youthful enthusiasm, 91-year-old Shaw sat down to write a 36-page introduction for a new edition of Professor Wilson's study in which he proves, if nothing else, that he can still write the liveliest prose of any man alive. He takes the reader...
Caesar's Fault. Shaw seems just to be getting up full steam on Darwinism when he jumps the track and chugs off on a discussion of the English language. "An intelligent child who is bidden to spell debt, and very properly spells it det, is caned for not spelling it with a b because Julius Caesar spelt the Latin word for it with...