Word: englisher
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Inter-Continental Hotels that are to be designed, constructed and operated by Americans. In Peking, officials are planning to revive an institution that once stood as a symbol of Western cultural imperialism: a foreign-run university with a foreign faculty teaching technical subjects to 10,000 Chinese students-in English...
...colleagues condemned her way of reaching conclusions from observed evidence, which Mead called "disciplined subjectivity," and the quasi-novelistic style in which the book was written. But students snapped it up, partly because its ideas interested them, often because, as the author briskly explained, "I wrote it in English...
...Lambeth Conference in Canterbury last August, a broad consensus of bishops of the Anglican communion from 25 nations joined those of the mother church in agreeing that the volatile issue of women's ordination ought to be decided by each national church. By taking that position, observers thought, the English Anglicans were foreshadowing approval of the bitterly disputed proposal. The lead had already been taken by Canada, New Zealand and Hong Kong with little backlash. But the U.S. cast a shadow: after a close pro-ordination vote for women in 1976, the church suffered an embarrassing schism when angry conservatives...
...renames Carolyn, equipped with radar of his own invention and a purloined U.S. antitank TOW missile, Hardin sails off to stalk and destroy the black Moby Dick. Symbolically, his shipmate is also black, a physician, as was his wife, a young woman who had pulled him from an English beach and back to health, if not sanity...
Enter the jolly trio of Sandro, a rich, glossy Italian count; Jenny, a golden-haired English aristocrat; and Colly, a wisecracking American who enjoys one of his nation's largest inherited fortunes. Relaxing in Istanbul, they stumble across the huge drug operation run by Mustafa Algan Bey, ostensibly Turkey's premier dealer in precious carpets. Their adventures take them in and out of jail cells, dungeons, buses, trucks and steamers and across the length and breadth of Poppyland. About the only peril they do not indulge in is erotica. However, Scotsman Ivor Drummond's dippy novel could also serve...