Word: englishes
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Provincetown is a thriving artistic and literary colony. In the summer there are more famous authors than in English 175. Even in the winter, P-town is one of the cultural centers of Cape Cod. It also has a large gay population...
...works, one from each century since the seventeenth, all of which were well suited to the group's small size and intimate style. The string section opened the concert alone with a Chacony, written by Henry Purcell, which exemplified the highly ornamental and formally structured character of the early English baroque. Christopher Wilkins directed the performance with precise care, drawing from the orchestra a highly refined control over dynamics which contributed to the carefully maintained balance among the various sections. Purcell's formal phrasing never sounded stiff; the orchestra played effortlessly and with great sweetness and purity of tone...
...speeches do more than make "high school English teachers cringe in disbelief"; they controvert the facts and convolute the issues. The "elocution is egregious," and the "underlying egalitarian message of his orations is obvious," (my emphasis added to Emmerich's observations), but oration can be the same as rhetoric, which is 90 per cent of Governor Finch...
DIED. Sir Roy Harrod, 78, noted English economist, and disciple and definitive biographer (in 1951) of John Maynard Keynes; in Holt, Norfolk, England. A student of Keynes' at Cambridge, Harrod forged a brilliant career that encompassed teaching at Oxford University from 1921 to 1967 and serving on Sir Winston Churchill's private staff during World War II. He was knighted...
...Dilwyn, the second-born son, it meant breaking the vital German flag code in World War I and finding a crucial key to the Germans' baffling Enigma machine in World War II. For Ronald, youngest and most celebrated of the four, it meant translating a Roman Catholic English Bible-Old and New Testaments-from the Latin Vulgate. For Eldest Brother Edmund it meant a painstaking ascension to the Fleet Street pantheon as editor of Punch. Wilfred, the third-born son, chose a different sort of test. An Edwardian dandy who wore silk ties from London's Burlington Arcade...