Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Charles separates Boston from Cambridge, Mass, (and Harvard College). It was soon apparent that in Greater Boston, passionate feeling about an English King who had his head chopped off in 1649, James Michael Curley and history in general flowed as deep and murky as the Charles itself. "Unfortunate," snapped Benjamin R. Sears Jr. of Boston, replying to O'Halloran. "King Charles, while perhaps not one of England's great rulers, was King during much of the time Boston was being colonized," Sears noted. "What better way to remember part of our heritage...
...curious situation, not without a certain undercurrent of irony. The Clash, an English band of four tough-strutting musicians who together lay down the fiercest, most challenging sounds in contemporary rock, has just finished...
...Gore Vidal's Kalki). Or in an unending snowstorm (George Stone's Blizzard). Or from the scorching "greenhouse effect" of too much CO2 in the atmosphere (Arthur Herzog's Heat). Or through global political disintegration (The Third World War: August 1985 by a group of English officers and writers). Or even by a reversal of the earth's magnetic fields (Fred Warshofsky in Doomsday...
Some scholars think that this kind of writing may be a reflection, rather than a cause, of the preoccupation with disaster. Roy Peter Clark, an English professor at Auburn University, links the spread of millenarian fever with the approaching end of a true millenium-the year 2000. Says he: "We must prepare ourselves for the mass psychological hysteria, the conscious or unconscious sense of terror that may build to a climax." Others, like Psychoanalyst Eric Fromm, say that love of calamity shows a sense of alienation and powerlessness that seeks release through images of destruction...
...Aleksandr is a bearded patriarch of human rights and his name should inspire decent--if non-materialistic--political thoughts in K-School students. The contest organizers want an inspirational name. Who could better satisfy them? Objections: Tinges and wisps of Socialism and Communism. The guy doesn't even speak English. Newsweek caption: "Solzhenitsyn at Harvard, permanently...