Word: englishes
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...somewhat astonished to find that the longest word in the Oxford English Dictionary was floccinaucinihilipilification [March 13]. Having long been an aficionado of language oddities, I had thought the longest word to be pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (a disease of miners caused by inhaling silicate dust...
...assassination. South African officials charged that SWAPO had killed the black leader as part of an assassination campaign, and alluded to a "captured document" that purportedly included plans to kill opposition black leaders in Namibia. In Zambia last week, SWAPO Leader Sam Nujoma, who at one time studied English under Kapuuo, denied that his organization had had anything to do with the killing. The murder, he suggested, might well have been the work of South African provocateurs...
...late, three magnificent exhibitions in London have sharply revised our ideas on the stature of English art in the 18th and early 19th centuries. The first, in 1974, was the Turner retrospective at the Royal Academy; the second was Constable at the Tate Gallery. Now it is William Blake's turn. Through May, some 340 of his works are on view at the Tate, in a comprehensive show organized by Art Historian Martin Butlin: paintings, drawings, watercolors, woodcuts, color prints, illustrated books...
...Lecture--English 209 "Two Approaches to Wordsworth: Elegiac Poetry and Eighteenth Century Psychology," 277 Science Center...
Meanwhile, on April 19, David Bromberg teams up with Maria Muldaur (last seen onstage with Jerry Garcia) at Symphony Hall. Maria went to my high school and used to cut her English class to sing in the bathroom. The acoustics at Symphony Hall are much better, though...