Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bourget Airport, stood erect General Charles de Gaulle, France's Man of Liberation and Man of Recovery, and now a proud and difficult ally often billed as NATO's No.1 problem. When the President all but sprinted down the ramp. De Gaulle stepped forward and said in English, "Hello, how are you?" Said De Gaulle later in a formal greeting: "You are a man, a man of intelligence, a man of heart, a man of honor." The President termed De Gaulle: "My old friend and colleague . . . the symbol of French courage, defiance and dedication...
Showing up in Atlantic City, N.J. to talk before an Israel Bond rally, Novelist Leon Uris (Exodus, Battle Cry), 35, recalled his record at Philadelphia's Bartram High School, said he had flunked English three times and was about to register flunk No. 4 when he enlisted in the Marine Corps. To Uris, who recently signed a contract with Columbia Pictures for four sight-unseen novels, the matter was merely academic, but "it's a good thing English has nothing to do with writing...
Hopkinson has boosted circulation 40%, plans next year to give Drum readers in Kenya, Tanganyika and Uganda their own East African edition, which will be published in both English and Swahili. Eventually, Publisher Bailey and Editor Hopkinson hope, Drum's beat will be heard and understood all over Africa...
...Upstairs (English). "A taut, offbeat thriller, crisply written and directed, about a psychotic scientist holed up on the top floor of a rooming house, and how his fellow lodgers coax him into coming down...
...Satyricon of Petronius, translated by William Arrowsmith. An unembarrassed classicist provides the best English version yet of the Priapean satire by Nero's arbiter of elegance...