Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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That just about sums up Waugh: The essential stage-Tory, at heart afraid of his own shadow, a maggot in the rotten core of English literature in the first half of this century...
...nearly enough," O'Halloran opined in the Boston Globe's letters column. But there is another way that "will cost us nothing and accomplish much." Concluded O'Halloran: "There is no longer any viable reason we should call our river after an obscure and no-account English King. We should spend nothing and rename the Charles River the Curley River...
...Lawrence and James Joyce--Margery Sabin, Department of English. Wellesley College; Colloquium Room Agassiz House...
...Pennsylvania mountains, though. Man, it was elaborately bogus--the choral music in the mountains, the Russian Orthodox Church that looked like the Vatican--and those scenes in the beginning...During my youth, after an unpleasant incident with the wife of the Marquis De Palona--from which comes the English, "marquee," which applies to movies--I was forced to take a sojourn along the Ohio, and I was struck by how true-to-life the scenes in the steel mills are. Those people, though, do not sound like steel workers--they sound like transplanted New Yorkers, and they keep trying...
Goodman, who hopes to study astrophysics at Cambridge University, said yesterday, "I've always wanted to study in England, especially because I'm half English...