Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hours of talks with the Chancellor, who will also meet with congressional leaders and breakfast with National Security Adviser Zbigniew Brzezinski. In addition, the U.S. public will be able to take the Chancellor's measure when he fans out to give three major speeches in his fluent, almost unaccented English: at Columbia, S.C., where he will attend a centennial celebration for the late former Secretary of State James F. Byrnes; at Harvard, where he is to deliver the main commencement address and receive an honorary doctorate; and at the American Council on Germany, a foreign affairs organization in New York...
DIED. Eric Partridge, 85, indefatigable English lexicographer and student of the language's quirks and conventions; in Devon, England. Born in New Zealand and educated in Australia and at Oxford, the tall, spare Partridge abandoned a budding career as an English professor (he feared he would become "a bloody bore") to devote himself to publishing and writing. Though he once turned out a novel in a month for his Scholartis Press in London, he gave up fiction to make a profession of his passion: the study of words. Over five decades, he compiled 16 erudite lexicons devoted to slang...
...past professor of law at the University of Toronto, graduated from Osgoode Hall Law School and received a Master of Laws degree from Harvard in 1937. Albert Sacks, dean of the Law School, called him "one of the foremost judicial figures in the court of England and the English-speaking parts of the Commonwealth." He was appointed to the Canadian Supreme Court in 1970 and became its chief justice in 1973. He is the author of The British Tradition in Canadian...
Judith A. Kates, assistant professor of English and Comparative Literature and a member of the committee, says, however, in some fields women's studies involves substantial new research. Historians, for example, are finding new information in women's diaries and letters and are tackling uncharted areas like family history. In psychology, a researcher starting in the field has many volumes on the psychology of women to catch up on. But other fields, Kates says, like her own specialty of literature, involves merely asking new questions and rethinking familiar literature. "Feminist literary criticism is not so much a different method...
...leaving. Among next year's new offerings are a course on women in modern European society and politics taught by Mary Nolan, assistant professor of History, a Government course on the politics of women's liberation given by Ethel Klein, a newly-hired junior faculty member, assistant professor of English Heather McClave's course on women short story writers, and two Afro-American studies courses by the acting chairman of the department, Chidi Ikonne, on the black woman as subject and as author in fiction...