Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Ukrainian dissident invited to come to Harvard has been released from Mordovia. Three times in the last two years, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures invited Sviatoslav I. Karavansky, a translator, poet and literary critic from Odessa to give two lectures on "problems in the translation of classical English texts in Ukrainian...
...purpose of the invitation was two-fold: first, translating English into Ukrainian probably is an interesting problem, at least for specialists. But more importantly, the department sent the invitation in the hope of helping Karavansky's situation. Karavansky could use some help; he has spent nearly 30 of his 59 years in Soviet jails as a political prisoner...
Those classes complement the education students get behind the counter. Co-op teachers show students how to draw up a balance sheet in math class, how to fill orders and solicit business in English class, and how to make decisions in social studies class...
Meanwhile, Robert J. Kiely, professor of English and Master of Adams House, keeps a regular storehouse close at hand. "The New York Times magazine section, the Boston Globe's New England...Let me think, what else is usually in there? Oh, the travel section of The New York Times." But if all else fails, the father of two admits. "We've always got a lot of children's books in there if we get bored...
John L. Clive, professor of History, observed, "The bathroom is not my reading room." Relax, Widener, Robert H. Chapman, professor of English Literature and director of the Loeb Drama Center, also said he does not take tomes to the toilets. "I usually go there for other reasons...