Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Everyone in my English 10 section was sniffling," Margaret Profet '80, who lives in Lowell House, said yesterday. "Finally, I started sniffling, too," she added...
...Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner is one of the best short novels ever written because its author, Alan Sillitoe, has the rare gift of capturing working class life in simple, unromanticized prose. It's the story of an English youth in a reform school who purposely loses a cross-country match to be honest; he thought it would be immoral to win the challenge cup merely to please a vain warden--head-master. Sillitoe combines a vivid picture of the routine of lower class life using the loneliness of cross-country running to cultivate his protagonist's spiritual development...
...Harvard University Choir. Last year, Bach Soc did RVW's "Lark Ascending," which was beautifully done. The piece for this concert should be well worth hearing, so don't miss it. Bach Soc has demonstrated that it's able to pull off a program combining German baroque and English pastoral or Russian schmalz very well...
This week at Sword-in-the-Stone everyone plays contemporary folk. Everyone, that is, save Jim Leahy-- an Englishman who performs English ballads--and Company Coming Troupe, which is not a folksinger, but an improvisational theater group. The Company (clever, eh?--I wonder if that was intentional) will perform tonight and every Thursday night at Sword...
...awkward insertion of another person's voice speaking a different tongue into the lips of the original actors, besides being aesthetically offensive, robs the viewer of the genuine performance. But Chabrol unaccountably elected to ignore this long-accepted truism, perhaps as part of a misguided effort to accommodate the English-speaking Steiger. Combine this blunder with the normally sluggish quality of a Chabrol screenplay, and you come up with a film virtually stripped of a crucial dimension--the dialogue and how it is delivered...