Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analysis of Dostoievsky's "Brothers Karamazov" by Ernest J. Simmons, Assistant Professor of English, brought about 50 members of the Modern Language conference to the Leverett House Junior Common Room last night, as he emphasized Dostoievsky's importance as a novelist, rather than as a prophet...
...Alex ander Woollcott of his famed anecdote about the young lady who, visiting Paris with her mother, was sadly disconcerted one day to find that the old lady had Disappeared and that nobody would admit that she had ever existed. For the mother, The Lady Vanishes substitutes a dowdy English governess (Dame May Whitty); for Paris, it substitutes an express train on which young Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood) is going back to England; and for bubonic plague, which was the reason in the Woollcott story for the old lady's complete blotting out, it substitutes an international intrigue...
...written to appeal to mass audiences. To connoisseurs of spy melodrama, they rate as classics, and play steady revival engagements in Manhattan and London. Hitchcock lives in a walk-up flat in London, spends his weekends gardening at his cottage in Surrey. Now 38, he has been directing English pictures for 14 years, will work in Hollywood for the first time next February when he goes there to make Titanic and Rebecca for David Selznick...
Durrell is a 27-year-old Anglo-Irishman, born in Burma and raised on the border of Tibet, now working as clerk at the Ionian Bank in Corfu. Insofar as it has a story, The Black Book tells of a group of people living in a stuffy English hotel -all neurotic, frustrated, savage and obsessed with sex. The narrator brings home an 18-year-old tuberculous prostitute, Gracie, speculates about his neighbors, suffers a baffled, angry grief at Gracie's death...
...British steamship line. The worst of these was his marriage to a beautiful U. S. heiress, a friend of the woman to whom Spenlove tells the story. (Captain Remson's wife had been too corrupted, apparently, by the slack code of U. S. high society to understand an English gentleman.) Remson finally ended up in the South American jungle, where legend had it he had found gold mines. Actually his treasure trove was an ideal woman and ideal peace, manifesting "a character that seems to me likely to carry him through our times and on into better times...