Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...have caught the English disease," admits one economic ministry official. "It has been a numbing, demoralizing experience." Adds Swedish Nobel-prizewinning Economist Gunnar Myrdal: "We are at the end of a very long development. We live in a dangerous time. It is possible that everything will go to hell...
That introduction suggests a chalky professor lamenting the decline of English since the invention of the cathode-ray tube. In fact, the author is also a lively raconteur, poet (Blue Juniata), critic (A Second Flowering) and living history of the liberal temper. At 79 he is older than the century, and wiser. He has witnessed the failure of his early radicalism and watched favorite writers fall into neglect and obscurity. Yet, almost alone of his generation, he remains unafflicted by bitterness. Every chapter of -And I Worked at the Writer's Trade reveals a humane and spacious...
...seven finalists, selected from an original group of 30, each delivered a literary or oratorical selection of a maximum of five minutes in Latin, Greek or English...
...teaching assistant, Joffe has never been entirely happy. He taught an English 175 section last spring and was teaching one this year but quit it for his present job as a police reporter for a local paper...
Evening of Song--Works of Schubert, Faure, English Lute Songs: At Adams House...