Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Among the more practiced perpetrators of mayhem on the English language are members of the U.S. intelligence community. Already they have flattened the phrase communications intelligence (the fruits of electronic surveillance or code breaking) into "comint" and reshaped human intelligence (information from spies) into "humint...
This year's British Open which concluded two weeks ago turned out to be nothing short of a real rannygazoo, as the English would say. While the rest of the field sturggled merely to save face, Americans Jack Nicklaus and Tom Watson began the final round of play all even and proceeded to bandy birdies with impunity on the regal links of Turnberry on the Scottish seashore. In a compelling finish to golf's most venerable spectacle, Watson shot a five under par 65 to edge out Nicklaus by a stroke, who thus became a runner-up in the British...
Ierulli's two courses are rather different from each other: one is on the 19th century English novel, while the other is on genocide in history. She said she decided to enroll in the literature course because she is very interested in the English novel. The genocide course--well, she wondered at first why people would take a genocide course, and doesn't really offer an explanation for her own initial interest in it. But she said she finds it very interesting, and very important: it deals with something she believes people should know about to avoid repetitions...
...three masterpieces: The Gift, written in Russian and first published in 1936, Lolita (1955), and Pale Fire (1962). In addition to 14 other novels, hundreds of poems, dozens of short stories, dramas, translations, criticism and scientific articles about butterflies, Nabokov produced one of the finest autobiographies in the English language. First published in 1951 as Conclusive Evidence, the book was expanded and reissued in 1966 as Speak, Memory...
...better-balanced mad mind than mine." It was the mind of an exile imprisoned in memories of a culture swept away by revolution and war. Born April 23, 1899, into an intellectual, upper-class St. Petersburg family, Nabokov enjoyed the benefits of wealth, position and a Western European education. English was his first language, taught by an English nanny. French and Russian were learned, as he said, "at my nurses' knees-two nurses, four knees." His mother encouraged his early poetic efforts, and his father, a distinguished liberal jurist during the final reactionary years of imperial Russia...