Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...importance of the English monarchy lies not in its power but in the power it denies to others. As Lord Carrington said: "Malta is not so important as it was, but it remains important that no one else...
...English preserve their monarchy -an expensive anachronism-as a symbol of their past glory. A nation that can adopt the idea of inherent inequality, a premise upon which monarchy is based, can also adopt the idea of its own superiority in the family of nations...
...months off from his job in Binghamton, N.Y., to see the U.S. by train. Steve Singer, a CBS producer, and his friend Judy Wilbur are headed for a vacation in New Orleans, convinced that "this is the way to go." On their first American visit, a young English couple, Donald and Tania Stewart, get off at Greenville to see the Great Smokies. For young voyagers who never rode the old Chiefs and Limiteds, the passage is the message. "Nostalgia," said one, "is for people who ride phony coal burners at Disneyland." (Note for nostalgia freaks: the Crescent no longer goes...
...provide federal encouragement and money for training programs run by private business. One good model is the string of Opportunities Industrialization Centers started by the Rev. Leon Sullivan in Philadelphia and now operating in 137 communities. OIC first gives the hard-core unemployed brush-up courses in English, math, dress and deportment, then trains them for specific jobs (welding, typing, data processing), many of which, local businessmen report, are actually there waiting to be filled. In 14 years, says Sullivan, OIC has graduated 400,000 trainees and placed 300,000 of them in jobs; 80% stick...
Today, at 75, he is straight-backed and energetic, with a courtly manner and ornate English. He does not live the life of a new celebrity, instead subsisting mostly on Social Security in a transient hotel in San Francisco's notorious Tenderloin district. Since his last wife died in 1974, Nyiregyházi has been a virtual recluse. A hard drinker and heavy thinker (Shakespeare and Schiller are familiars), he is as profligate with money as with matrimony. "Of course financial trouble is never welcome," he says. "But I never regarded concertizing as a glorious occupation. I always preferred...