Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...mechanical engineer, not a social engineer," he says in his guise as realist. "I was an English major at Bates. The nearest I came to formal science was a minor in geology. That's all right. The Teton Dam and the Hartford Civic Center were both designed by engineers. The state of Maine's made up of tinkerers -they'll tackle anything-and maybe that's what the world needs...
Queen Elizabeth's birthday is celebrated with a full-dress military parade and a flyby of the Brunei air force, which consists of twelve helicopters. The English commander of the 1,000-man Royal Brunei Malay Regiment is in effect the sultanate's Defense Minister. The British High Commissioner handles foreign affairs and is chauffeured about the capital of Bandar Seri Begawan in a huge silver Daimler, given to him by the sultan. One of the few points of interest in the sleepy capital is a museum honoring Winston Churchill. Another landmark is the Royal Brunei Yacht Club...
...prominent Russian mathematician who helped shape his country's space program; in Moscow. His own research centered on rocketry and spacecraft, but as chief of the Soviet Academy of Sciences from 1961-75, Keldysh oversaw a national network of scientific projects and organizations. His working knowledge of English helped him maintain contacts with many Western scientists, and he professed a desire for Soviet-American cooperation in space research...
This god's-eye view tends to blur more than it clarifies. "English settlement ... came somewhat later than depicted," says an exasperating prefatory note to Chesapeake, which also mentions that Steed and Turlock are invented names, "but it did occur at a spot only 23 miles to the north." Fiction with heavy doses of reality and reportage is not precisely history; history in which the names and places are not quite right is not yet fiction. Falling between two schools, Chesapeake is less than some of its parts: an agreeable, disposable epic destined for the summer beach, the fall...
Final Payments, Mary Gordon ∙Shosha, Isaac Bashevis Singer ∙ The Execution of Mayor Yin, Chen Jo-hsi ∙The Left-Handed Woman, Peter Handke ∙The New Oxford Book of English Light Verse, edited by Kingsley Amis ∙The World According to Garp, John Irving...