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Word: englishes (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes Definitely Meeting Today | 2/10/1978 | See Source »

...English...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Classes Definitely Meeting Today | 2/10/1978 | See Source »

Finch, a North Mississippi small town lawyer with rough-hewn friends, a crunching handshake and grammar that makes high school English teachers Cringe in disbelief, has conjured up the specter of southern populism--a specter that has emerged from the hinterlands of Mississippi now that the race issue ceases to becloud class divisions in the state with the lowest per capita income in the nation...

Author: By J.wyatt Emmerich, | Title: Color-Blind Populism | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...like sports too. But I am too busy to attend as many sporting events as I would like to. So I reply on your column to stay in tune with athletics on campus. To start with, since your title reveals your European or Canadian descent, I think you manage English remarkably well as a second language. Furthermore, I marvel at the number and variety of events you relate. Who could imagine a college with a greater sports smorgasbord...

Author: By Michael K. Savit, | Title: Snoway to Go: This Was the Week That Wasn't | 2/9/1978 | See Source »

...sufficiently serious." The music of Beethoven, Schumann and Berlioz, he told Tchaikovsky, has "an artificial style-striving for the unexpected." The critic was Count Leo Tolstoy, and these and other remarks appear in two volumes of Tolstoy's Letters (Scribners; $35), the first comprehensive translation into English of the Russian writer's prolific correspondence. In notes to friends and fellow authors like I.S. Turgenev, Maxim Gorky, H.G. Wells and Rainer Maria Rilke, Tolstoy also takes a hard look at his own work. War and Peace, he concedes, is in some parts "long-winded and inaccurate...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Feb. 6, 1978 | 2/6/1978 | See Source »

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