Word: englished
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...bright-eyed little man with the high silk hat and the flaring beard seemed to be everywhere last week, carrying his gold-headed cane and dog-eared Old Testament, and speaking a fine, clear Dublin English. Everywhere he went, his people flocked around him to ask his blessing and welcome His Eminence Isaac Halevi Herzog, Chief Rabbi of Israel...
...President of the U.S., Rabbi Herzog opened his Bible and began reading (in Hebrew) the 126th Psalm. Meanwhile, Harry Truman reached into his desk for his mother's old Bible and flipped the pages to the same place. When the rabbi had finished, the President read in English: "When the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion, we were like them that dream. Then was our mouth filled with laughter, and our tongue with singing...
Nineteen years ago, in a thundering book called Universities: American, English, German, learned Abraham Flexner, then director of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton, N J., roundly damned U.S. colleges. With all their "wretched claptrap" of vocationalism, he held, "they resemble the modern drugstore in which the pharmacy has been pushed in the corner by soda fountains." Last week, at 82, Educator Flexner announced a modified opinion: "There must have been changes in educational methods." His reason for thinking so: for two years he had quietly been taking courses in English literature and the fine arts at Columbia...
Image of a Writer. Next week The Diary of a Writer appears in English for the first time. It is one of those books that is alternately fascinating and dreary, tinglingly exciting and unendurably boring. Journalist Dostoevsky observed none of the rules; he wrote about whatever he pleased at whatever length he pleased, and he wrote sloppily and badly, seldom troubling to whip his pieces into coherent shape. Diary is a vast jumble of rants, stories, articles, sketches, criticisms, polemics-some completely dated, some as fresh and troubling as The Brothers Karamazov...
Dunster House's intramural softball team ended its season on a note of glory yesterday as it walloped a team of House tutors, 15 to 1, on the Business School Field. Steve Best bested John Major, teaching fellow in English, in the rainy pitching "duel...