Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Most of the 32 journalists who accompanied Vice Premier Teng Hsiao-p'ing to the U.S. knew little or no English. Before the week was out, the Chinese reporters and film crews had learned a great deal about "body English" and were elbowing and kneeing for position along with the most practiced members of the American press. But most of the time, unleashed at last in what they had long been taught to think of as the land of "imperialists" and "paper tigers," these Chinese observers seemed withdrawn and lacking in the curious eye, pugnacious stance and fast footwork...
...think a lot of people apply to more than one course," Monroe Engel '42, senior lecturer on English, said yesterday. "Perhaps no more than 20 to 30 per cent of the people who apply to writing courses don't get into one," he added...
John McPhee's "factual story" brand of writing successfully revives Henry David Thoreau's (Class of 1837) ideas on creative factual writing, William Howarth, associate professor of English at Princeton, told a small audience yesterday...
Robert J. Kiely, professor of English, who co-teaches the seminar, said yesterday only 15 of 30 applicants were admitted. "We took the Adams House applicants, and then we tried for upperclassmen and a balance of fields of concentration," Kiely said, adding, "It was a discussion course, and it wouldn't have been feasible to take a larger group of people...
Kermit Roosevelt seemed a natural choice to organize the covert operation. He was a historian by training (his doctoral dissertation was on "Psychological Techniques in the English Civil Wars") and during the war he was assigned to the Near East where he served in army intelligence. Later he was recruited by the CIA and in early 1953 was station chief at Beirut in the Lebanon. Roosevelt's Eastern manner was a perfect facade to hide his role as a covert operator--"the last person you would expect to be up to his neck in dirty tricks" as Kim Philby...