Word: englishes
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DIED. Sylvia Townsend Warner, 84. English novelist and short-story writer who probed the small conceits of her humdrum characters with a tartly satirical eye; in Maiden Newton, England. Warner met success early when her first novel (Lolly Willowes) became a premier selection by the fledgling U.S. Book-of-the-Month Club in 1926, but she showed an enduring talent with her genteel, Victorian prose (The Museum of Cheats, The Flint Anchor). A longtime contributor to The New Yorker, she also won acclaim as a poet (Time Importuned), a translator (Marcel Proust on Art and Literature...
...Medieval studies is suffering a terrible loss," Morton W. Bloomfield, Porter Professor of English and chairman of the Committee on Medieval Studies, said yesterday. Several graduate students have recently called attention to the lack of a professor of Old Norse...
Brutus, who holds a tenured position in Northwestern's English department, said he believes the situation in South Africa is getting increasingly serious because of the accelerating tempo at which the white-minority government is arming itself and is becoming economically self-sufficient...
Leape said Dr. Robert Beran, associate director of the Division of Educational Measurement and Research, told her that the AAMC is going to rescore the tests but she "couldn't get him to tell me in plain English" how it is going...
With Geronimo Rex (1972), Barry Hannah emerged as a first novelist with an innate gift for gab. His mockepic saga of growing up wacky during the '50s and '60s hummed down the groove of black humor but spun with Southern English. Hannah revealed an ear for the palaver that still goes on around Confederate monuments, as well as for the eloquent cadences of Faulkner and Joyce...