Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Allan Neilson so well that when he retired last June it asked him to help choose his own successor. Last week Dr. Neilson and Smith's trustees together picked another British-born scholar to head the college: Herbert John Davis, a native of Northamptonshire, now chairman of the English department at Cornell...
Like Dr. Neilson, Mr. Davis is an authority on English literature. Dr. Neilson's specialty is Shakespeare, Mr. Davis' Jonathan Swift. Mr. Davis was graduated from Oxford, was an artilleryman in World War I, taught at the University of Leeds and Cologne and for 16 years at University of Toronto before he went to Cornell last year. He remained a member of the Church of England but otherwise quickly became Americanized. He moved into an old colonial farmhouse, drove a car, played a good game of golf, joined a few clubs. Slim, fair and sandy-haired, he likes...
Early this year, Malone started planning a Pilgrimage of Poetry. From English departments of some 700 U. S. colleges and universities he got rankings of all the late, great U. S. poets, settled for the top-ranked 32,* arranged with NBC a 12,000-mile Odyssey to broadcast from their homes, workshops, shrines. After an unofficial send-off from Admirer Auslander at the Library of Congress, the Pilgrimage got under way last Sunday. Pilgrim Malone visited the room in the Roger Brooke Taney house at Frederick, Md. which Francis Scott Key used to frequent, broadcast chattily of the old medico...
...make German ears tingle, Britain's BBC thrice daily broadcasts reproachful propaganda in German. Daily the Reich's radio warriors retort in English. Sample of Nazi frightfulness...
Four years ago a young English writer, Wystan Hugh Auden, incorporated these lines in the chorus of a play. Auden's poems were at that time widely talked about and widely misunderstood-with some reason. They seemed brilliant, veiled, obscurely revolutionary. By October 1939, however, few Englishmen could still look blank over such lines as these. Their meaning was all too painfully clear...