Word: englished
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half-sister and a halfbrother, by the finest living writer of English fiction...
...with my little hoe-gardening is my favorite hobby." She tickled a toddler at a day care facility for children of farm laborers in Forest Grove, Ore. She encouraged teen-age weight lifters at a community center near the Watts ghetto with a little of her own body English...
...point to you). They are not leaving the way they were; or else they're leaving and coming back, trained and with a stake. To keep the place lively, the government has announced some eyecatching tax breaks for writers and artists. After all, they say to the English, "our ancestors were great scholars while yours were still running around in blue paint." Perhaps the next dream of the ahistorical Irish, besides the usual one of flooding the world with poets, priests and bums, is to become a cultural sanctuary-after other people have returned to wearing blue paint...
...survive in the world, some 600 have resided for centuries in the royal collection of Britain's monarchs. How they came to be there is not certain. Most of them seem to have been brought to England by Thomas Howard, Earl of Arundel, known as "the father of English art collectors," who found them in Spain some time after 1637. The royal family acquired them some time before 1690. But apparently neither King William III nor Queen Mary was much impressed by their quality. A hundred years later, an official at Windsor Castle discovered them tucked away...
Died. Martita Hunt, 69, one of the great ladies of the English stage and screen, who enthralled American audiences as the sinister Miss Havisham in the 1947 film version of Great Expectations, and in 1948 as the wondrously wacky ragbag old crone in Broadway's The Madwoman of Chaillot; in London...