Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Toth, whose knowledge of Russian is limited, had several times used Shcharansky to contact Jewish refuseniks?many of whom have been barred from emigration because they are scientists. Shcharansky, whose English is excellent, acted as an unofficial public relations man for his fellow Jewish activists, as well as for members of the Moscow Helsinki Watch Committee, which he had helped found...
...carry American grain to the U.S.S.R., or in Paris, where Kauzov was sent on business. When the Soviet government got wind of the romance, it is said, Kauzov was called home and fired. Later, Kauzov, who has a glass eye from a childhood accident, began supporting himself as an English tutor. When TIME's Moscow correspondent called Christina at the Intourist Hotel, she said firmly: "I have never talked to reporters, and I am not going...
Today Conrad has replaced Victor Hugo. A similar survey of contemporary writers would turn up many of the master's titles: An Outcast of the Islands, Lord Jim, Typhoon, Nostromo, The Secret Agent and his greatest story, Heart of Darkness. His ominous Slavic intensity and his understated English produced a prose style that generations have found intoxicating. Countless youths acquired their first sense of literary power in such passages as "When an opportunity offered at last to meet my predecessor, the grass growing through his ribs was tall enough to hide his bones...
...Chemistry Department now has the second-largest total enrollment, outnumbered only by the English department. The department offers only two courses, Chemistry S-1 and S-20. The English Department offers eight, including the ever-popular English as a Foreign Language...
Ukrainian courses continue to draw large enrollments because they are "scholarship for free," Pihl said. He added that Ukrainian Studies students receive tuition scholarships. Ten Most Popular Summer School Courses Chemistry S-20 190 Expository Writing 190 English as a Foreign Language 149 Chemistry S-1 133 Ukrainian History 117 Introduction to Psych. & Soc. Rel. 98 Cell Biology 94 Gov. S-50 83 Introduction to Calculus 76 Math...