Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...employers to protect themselves by not hiring anyone of Hispanic descent. At their convention in Fresno, Calif., Cesar Chavez's United Farm Workers union condemned the program as an attempt "to promote wholesale discrimination in employment against all workers who have dark skins and speak languages other than English...
...natives may have to do without their favorite unless a dispute over syndication rights to the strip is resolved. Local rights to The Phantom have long been owned by the nation's sole daily newspaper, the Post-Courier, which publishes The Phantom in English, not pidgin. This summer, after the fast-growing Wantok moved to a new and larger plant, the Australian-owned Post-Courier decided to assert its exclusive right to the comic strip, and the local distributor pulled The Phantom from Wan-tok. Says Father Frank Mihalic, editor of Wantok: "I don't see any conflict...
...also turned conducting into a spectator sport, giving the role of conductor a panache that has not yet been surpassed. When he died last week of a heart attack during a morning nap at his farmhouse in an English village called Nether Wallop, a titan of music was gone, an era ended. At age 95, he had been expecting to go to London to make another album for Columbia Records...
...Godfather experience, and later she was funny in a bad Elliott Gould movie, Harry and Walter Go to New York, and then funny in a good Elliott Gould movie, I Will, I Will ... For Now. Last year she was delightful in a misbegotten Broadway comedy, The Primary English Class...
...later renounced the church -and a conscientious objector who served five months in prison for draft resistance during World War II. In his later years, he suffered from manic-depression and was often in mental institutions. He had three wives, all writers: Novelist Jean Stafford, Critic Elizabeth Hardwick and English Novelist Lady Caroline Blackwood. The Byronic drama of his marriages made its way into Lowell's poetry, where he quoted his wives' letters and reproaches, chronicled his infidelities and begged forgiveness. But he portrayed his worldly sorrows with a fervor transcending mere confession. There are, for example, these...