Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jerome Buckley, Gurney Professor of English Literature, was visiting friends on Kirkland St. where his hosts warily eyed the Crimson reporters who came to call. "Well, I guess we're all little kids at heart," the woman who answered the door said, doling out gumdrops and describing the neighborhood's costumes...
...death last week in New York at 75 closed the page on a generation of American humorists that included Frank Sullivan, Robert Benchley, Dorothy Parker and H. Allen Smith. Yet as Humorist Russell Baker observes, Perelman's work was not typically American: "His writing had a certain English fineness in it. There is a love of language and an extensive vocabulary. He is hard to type. He is sui gen eris. I plagiarize a lot but I could not steal anything from him. The best you could do is a third-rate imitation and anyone could spot...
...French baritone who performed with the late composer-pianist Francis Poulenc for 25 years; of heart disease; in Villeneuve-lès-Avignon, France. Though best known for his interpretations of Poulenc art songs and other French vocal music, Bernac was also at home in the German and English repertory. Bernac, praised more for his technique and interpretative grace than for his voice, stopped performing in 1960 and concentrated on training singers in Europe and America...
Born in Poland, Singer emigrated to the United States in 1935 and now lives in Florida. The 1978 Nobel Laureate has written more than a dozen books in his native Yiddish and subsequently translated them into English...
Most of the time the Faculty Council has already decided, Brown explains, and CUE approval is "just a formality." Heather McClave, professor of English and former CUE member, criticizes the students' fatalistic attitude, claiming they may in some cases push their ideas through, though the process is "an uphill battle...