Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Mellon's English collection had swollen to the point where not even he had seen it all together; it was time to consider a public home for it. As president of the museum his father built, Mellon recounts: "It would have pleased me to give them to the National Gallery; the trouble was, it could never have hung more than an infinitesimal part of this very comprehensive collection, so the vast majority would have been in storage. I didn't like the idea of that." Yale, however, was pre-eminent in English 18th and 19th century literary studies...
...there is no way of putting a figure on his other possessions: the 4,000-acre estate in Virginia, the retreats on Antigua and Cape Cod, the town houses in Manhattan and Washington, D.C., the stables of racing horses in the U.S. and Britain or the hundreds of English and French art masterpieces that he has yet to give away...
...Thomas' sons. Dry and reserved, with no interests outside his business, he lived with his parents until he was 45. Only in middle age did he wake to the joys of life in the comely person of Nora McMullen, the high-spirited 20-year-old daughter of an English brewer, whom he married...
...Introductory Biology," said yesterday Biology is attractive to freshmen because the requirements "include med school requirements giving students who plan to go to med school more time to explore other areas." FIELD '77 '78 ECONOMICS 131 148 HISTORY 141 136 BIOLOGY 149 134 GOV 118 133 ENGLISH 106 109 PSYCH 78 82 BIOCHEM 78 57 HIST & LIT 53 44 SOC STUD 38 42 SOCIOLOGY...
IRONICALLY, the financial assistance of his grandfather allowed him to go to Harvard for a year, on the path to becoming an English professor. But the crowning irony of the book strikes us on the last page. After 40 years of a "successful" marriage, his wife shocks him with the question whether he wanted to marry her out of social convention. He, too, has been unable to communicate his love to her. "The slightly staggering dissonance" of his own real life cries out a louder, more powerful warning than the superficial falsehoods of Schorer's invented lives...