Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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William Alfred, chairman of the prize committee and Kenan Professor of English, said yesterday Ebright's essay effectively combines original research with "a writing style that makes a scientific topic understandable to everyone...
...Collection Center for Captured Vietnamese," as the Chinese quaintly called the first camp, was located at Baise in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, some 60 miles north of the Vietnamese border. At first sight, reported one of the English-language journalists present, Nigel Wade of the London Daily Telegraph, it resembled nothing so much as a busy secondary school during recess. Prisoners in Chinese-supplied blue suits and caps were playing soccer, badminton and tug-of-war. The food seemed plentiful and nutritious. There was no barbed wire or watchtower, and only one visible armed sentry, at the main gate...
...children, music, art, theater. The music department, for instance, rates oboists and violinists by ability and the orchestra's need for them. That evening Rogers meets with the hockey coach to review 82 prospects. Picking up the application of a defenseman from Canada, Rogers reads his courses aloud: "English, auto mechanics, consumer math, shop ..." He looks for the essay. There is none; instead, the candidate has enclosed his team's player program, listing goals, assists, penalty minutes. Rogers shakes his head and starts reading another folder. "Bingo!" he cries. " A's and B's, 600 boards...
Ayckbourn never strays from the subjects he knows so well: English suburbia and the slightly sad, but always funny problems of the married, the formerly married and the soon-to-be unmarried. "It is a rich source of comedy," he says. "Everything that is most horrifying and wonderful happens in marriage." He should know. His mother, a novelist, divorced his father, first violinist with the London Symphony Orchestra, when Alan, the only child, was five. She married a bank manager, who did not hide his dislike of Alan. They were later divorced...
...marvels at the copious flow of his invective ... Henry James [was] that "miserable little snob" whose preference for English society and English literature drove Roosevelt to near frenzy: 'Thus it is for the undersized man of letters, who flees his country because he, with his delicate, effeminate sensitiveness, finds the conditions of life on this side of the water crude and raw ... and so goes where he will be sheltered from the winds that harden stouter souls...