Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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During our interview, someone compliments Petric's patterned shirt. In response, he quotes from a poem called "Song of the Shirt." "Who wrote that?" he asks me. I tell him I have absolutely no idea. "It begins, 'Stitch, stitch, stitch," he says. "You're an English major--who wrote it?" I shrug stupidly. Annoyed, he gets up and asks several people standing outside his office. They shrug too. "Imagine--teaching assistants, and nobody knows 'Song of the Shirt!' "By now he is worked up; he picks up the phone and dials Widener Library. The librarian refers him to the Reference...
Lawrence L. Besserman, senior tutor of Adams House and assistant professor of English Literature, is leaving Harvard at the end of this semester to accept a position teaching english literature at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem...
Besserman, who teaches English 10, "The Tradition of English Literature," and English 200a, "Introduction to Anglo-Saxon Poetry," will be leaving for Israel in August, even though his contract with Harvard was not due to expire until the end of next year...
...sorry he's not going to be around--he makes my papers so much better," David R. Heilbronner '79, an English major in Adams House, said yesterday. Heilbronner added that since "the Bessermans take their religion pretty seriously, the move seems to be partly a pilgrimage...
Serban, associate director of the Yale Repertory Theatre, limited his talk to answering questions from an onstage panel consisting of George Hamlin, producing director of the Loeb, and Laura Shiels, teaching fellow in English...