Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Harvard-Yenching Library, the nation's largest Chinese library, may have to convert to a new system of transliterating Chinese characters into English that would entail creating a separate card catalogue written according to that system...
...Americanisms as "bottom line" and the use of "alibi" to mean any excuse, rather than its strict judicial meaning of being somewhere other than at the scene of a crime. But such immigrants as "commuter" and "lobby" as a verb have now been accepted into the Queen's English. Happily or not, the indelicate "hooker" has also crossed the Atlantic, although usually in Britain the term refers to rugby players...
DIED. Max Hayward, 54, English scholar who translated Boris Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago, and works by Solzhenitsyn and other Russian authors banned or banished in their own country; of cancer; in Oxford, England. A natural linguist, Hayward taught himself Russian as a teen-ager by plowing through an untranslated tome on gypsies. Between studying at Oxford in the '40s and returning there to teach in 1956, he spent two years in the British embassy in Moscow, where he developed a passionate concern for the literary culture stricken by Stalin's purges. He eventually became, said a colleague...
...Helen Chichester-Redfern, a terminal cancer patient who lives in the same English cathedral town as Hermitage. A deathbed friendship is struck, along with a sizzling affair with Mrs. C.-R.'s daughter Dinah, a churchgoing guitarist and bedroom athlete with the sexual etiquette of a praying mantis...
...notion of art as roof gutter is nicely suited to Wain's thoughtful treatment of two middle-aged men joyfully making fools of themselves over younger women. In less knowing hands, The Pardoner's Tale might have been only a clever sex reversal on the stock English romance about a maiden schoolteacher's brief tryst in Italy. But instead of sentimentality, Wain offers genuine sentiments. Instead of passion enveloping quivering loins in petals of fire, there is a steady sensuous glow that warms the brain...