Word: englished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII is a dramatization of Frederick William Rolfe's novel Hadrian the Seventh, a minor masterpiece of wish fulfillment about a rejected candidate for the priesthood who is elected Pope. Alec McCowen's performance as the fictional Pope is a paradigm of the elegant best in English acting...
...programs for bilingual instruction in Mexican-American areas are still inadequate, that kind of approach?if made readily available to all who want it?leaves the choice between separatism and assimilation ultimately to the individual Chicano himself. He learns in his father's tongue, but he also learns in English well enough so that language is no longer a barrier; he retains his own culture, but he also knows enough of the majority's rules and ways to compete successfully if he chooses...
...major impediment to the Mexican American is his Spanish language, because it holds him back in U.S. schools. Mexican Americans average eight years of schooling, two years less than Negroes and a full four years less than whites. Often they are forced to learn English from scratch in the first grade, and the frequent result is that they become not bilingual but nearly nonlingual. In Texas, 40% of Chicanos are considered functionally illiterate. In Los Angeles, only an estimated 25% can speak English fluently. Chicano children in some rural areas are still punished for speaking Spanish in school. Only this...
...your hands to work and your hearts to God" was the maxim enjoined upon that curious Protestant sect known as the Shakers by their founder, Mother Ann Lee. An English mill-hand, Mother Ann founded the Shaker religion after having experienced her own mystical vision of the Second Coming (she somehow got the notion that she was He). Together with a handful of converts, Mother Ann emigrated...
NEAR THE END of Weekend a woman is chewing on a bone. "It's that pig," an off-screen voice tells her, adding as an afterthought, "with those English tourists mixed in." "The ones from the Rolls-Royce?" she asks. "There must be some of your husband too," the voice answers. She continues eating with no reaction. The word "fin" appears on the screen, enlarged at once to "fin du conte" and then changed to "fin du cinema." The sequence reveals Godard's awareness that in Weekend he destroyed the only cinema he loves--the American narrative ("conte") film...