Word: englished
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...family was poor and of France's Protestant minority-Soustelle early decided that "I had to succeed, and quick." With the encouragement of his mother (who at 70 recently retired from work) and his mechanic stepfather, he won a lycee scholarship at eight, relentlessly mastered Greek, Latin, English and mathematics, at 20 placed first in philosophy among 250 candidates for France's highest scholastic competition, the Agrègation. In 1932, with his gifted bride of a year, Tunis-born Anthropologist Georgette Fagot,* he set off for Mexico, there spent most of the next seven years in anthropological...
Today Soustelle insists that he is not anti-American. "I am one of France's few public men who know the U.S., who speak English, who read the books and magazines. But I am pro-French! Excuse me, but I ami" He is outspokenly resentful of the U.S. refusal to support France in Algeria. "The Americans." he declared early last year, "treat their friends as enemies and their enemies as friends...
...people, I suspect, would maintain that their ability to write English correctly and effectively could not be improved. No matter what one's channels of endeavor. one should try to write his own language as well as possible. Punctuation is probably the aspect to which the least attention is paid these days: yet it is an essential, and no mere refinement...
Since that December evening in 1904, when Maude Adams and Gerald Du Maurier originated the roles of Peter Pan and Captain Hook, some of the greatest English-speaking actors have been charmed in taking to the piano wire or donning an iron claw, including Eva LeGallienne, Joan Greenwood, Jean Arthur, and Mary Martin in the title role; and Alastair Sim, Charles Laughton, Boris Karloff, and Cyril Ritchard as the evil pirate Captain...
This production uses the music written by the English composer John Crooke for the original production. When the play was published some thirty years later, Barrie himself penned a dedicatory perface in which he made point of praising the old Crooke music as "delightful." He was right: the various pieces are tuneful, and appropriate to the changing moods. Crooke's music has been tastefully scored for harpsichord and woodwinds by John Brockington, who appears briefly as the pirate Jukes...