Word: englishes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
John Vorster was right about that. Fulfilling the Prime Minister's euphoric election-night prediction, his National Party won 64.8% of the popular vote and 134 of the 165 seats in the new Parliament, an increase of 17. The moderately liberal Progressive Federal Party, supported by many English-speaking South Africans, doubled its previous support (to 16.7% of the vote), but elected only 17 members to the new Parliament. The other two English opposition groups, the conservative South African Party (three seats) and the Natal-based New Republic Party (ten seats) were virtually wiped out. So was a right...
...take a firmer line with Pretoria from now on. South Africans joked that Vorster and his party had run against President Jimmy Carter-and had won big. As they had always done before, the Afrikaners united in a time of crisis. And this time, they brought record numbers of English-speaking whites along with them...
...newcomers. Among them: Dr. Jan Marais, 58, the original driving force behind the independent South African Foundation and a maverick Afrikaner who has questioned many of the government's apartheid laws; Christophe Rencken, 40, a political commentator for the South African Broadcasting Corp.; and Denis Worrall, 43, the English-speaking former director of the Institute of Social and Economic Research at Rhodes University. Worrall advocates a substantial revision of the government's apartheid blueprint, including some kind of constitutional role for the country's 9 million urban blacks and an enlargement of the nine tribal homelands slated...
...appreciation was once a gut course-a simple matter of getting to know the styles and spellings of old masters. Modernism changed all that. Surrealism, Dada, cubism and, later, abstract expressionism, Pop, Op, minimalism and Happenings were too complex for simple appreciation. Edward Lucie-Smith, an English critic, attempts to pave a smooth, orderly path through this jungle of schools, styles, waves and blips. In Art Now (Morrow; 504 pages; $29.95) he efficiently gets the reader from abstract expressionism to superrealism. Like a package-tour guide, he hits the peaks and some of the troughs. The visual impact...
...theologians -many of a conservative stripe-who went to San Francisco for a three-day conference on "science and absolute values" sponsored by Moon's Unification Church. After an effusive introduction by Australian-born Neurophysiologist and Nobelman Sir John Eccles, Moon urged his guests, in barely understandable English, to express their beliefs fully. Housing, feeding and entertaining the academics plus their spouses for the brainy bash was costing about half a million dollars, but Moon was unperturbed. He viewed it as a way "to meet and examine the scientists and the professors to use in later days...