Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Newmark added, "This is a step back leading to the old English ideal of spoon feeding students...
Robert J. Kiely, professor of English served for three years as an assistant dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences. He says, "Senior faculty often hears the complaint that too much of the teaching is left to graduate students, inexperienced teachers...who also may not be so committed to it, who may be more interested in preparing for their orals or writing their own theses than in teaching. You can have uninteresting and uninterested and boring teaching at all levels. It comes back to a central fact about Harvard, which has to do with its size and student-faculty...
...polled about how well they like their departments, how good is the teaching, there's a very, very noticeable relationship between size of department and student contentment. Departments like Geology and Astronomy, for example, are very, very well thought of by the undergraduate majors. Then you measure that against English, Economics, Government, History and so on, the warhorse fields...You finally have a very, very uneven balance which can't be totally rectified by having somewhat larger staffs in the more popular department...
Across the ocean, Chateaubriand was less successful. Few Americans had heard of him in his own century; today the English-speaking world tends to associate the name with an expensive steak dish (created by a chef during Chateaubriand's brief sojourn as ambassador to England). British Biographer George Painter attempts to resurrect the legend by resuscitating the man. Author of a highly acclaimed and exhaustively researched biography of Proust, Painter has produced the first part of a projected three-volume study. Like its predecessor, it promises to be a model of organization and insight...
...friendship. But they are secretive because they have many mutual friends, and neither wants to endure the loss of privacy or the rituals of side taking that would follow full disclosure. Before propriety degenerates to absurdity, David and Elizabeth spend a glorious week together in a cottage in the English countryside. For that week they live happily ever after; then absurdity, in the persons of their respective exes, again obtrudes...