Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Angeles public defender last year, believes her disadvantaged background fits the special-program criteria. A Russian-born Jew whose parents were imprisoned in concentration camps, she immigrated only seven years ago to the U.S., where her impoverished family had to accept public assistance. Despite serious problems with English and the necessity of holding a part-time job, she managed an A+ average at U.C.L.A. and was placed at the top of one of the Davis medical school waiting lists. Her request to be considered for the special disadvantaged program was refused...
...with a tongue of salt and a spine of spunk. Ste phen Porter directs with stylish assurance, and equal praise accrues to Richard Wil bur, the translator-poet. His springy rhyming couplets carry scarcely a trace of melodic monotony and he turns Moliere's French into buoyantly idiomatic English...
...English novels, a traditionalist feels, should begin with old men in armchairs, yarning about far places, and American novels should begin much as this one does, with a restless young man standing at dockside in a suit that is too hot for him, wondering cheerfully what is going to happen next. The waterfront in this sturdy and sometimes impassioned novel is that of Savannah, Ga., in the year 1878. The young man who has just disembarked there is 17-year-old Seth Adler, lately of New York City...
Malcolm MacDonald "If you need the theater and city lights," says English Novelist MacDonald, 45, "this isn't a very appealing life. You have to be able to live on your inner resources." He, his German-born wife Ingrid and their two daughters do just that in a dilapidated Edwardian house in County Offaly that they bought three years ago and have been refurbishing ever since. MacDonald's success came suddenly in 1974, when runaway sales of his novel World from Rough Stones sent the family scurrying from British taxes. At first he felt guilty about paying...
Aleixandre is relatively unknown outside of the Spanish-speaking world, although he has been translated by English poets W.S. Merwin and Robert...