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Such are the discoveries of University of Wisconsin English Professor Emeritus Frederic Cassidy, 71, who so far has spent 13 years laboring to complete the first comprehensive dictionary of American regionalisms. Financed by the National Foundation on the Arts and the Humanities as well as private foundations, Cassidy and a staff of eight editors at the University of Wisconsin are slowly sifting American literature and records of interviews with 2,752 native Americans in 1,002 communities. The team has nearly finished editing the letter F. First conceived in 1889, the dictionary, which will include 60,000 entries...
Cassidy takes issue with the critics of American English who fear that the language is becoming, well, as soggy as a hoagie in a goose drownder. "I defy anybody to prove that language is deteriorating," insists he. "It's still changing all the time, and it's as varied and alive as it's always been...
DIVORCED. Albert Finney, 42, English stage and film actor (among his movies: Tom Jones, Murder on the Orient Express); and Anouk Aimée, 46, French actress (A Man and a Woman); after eight years of marriage; in London...
...tune is more than nice in the song "Pronto Monto," the title song of the album. The song is in French, very clear schoolbook French, with an English translation generously supplied on the sleeve. Along with the haunting words ("Such sad dreams/Troubling my sleep with that howl/Farewells must be but au revoirs"), and a charming french cabaret flavor, "Pronto Monto" is all variety. There's a brief transition to disco at the end of the song, French disco, and mysterious strains of mandolin, violin and horn floating in and out of the music. "Pronto Monto" embodies everything good about...
...Sullivan Players took Pinafore for granted; they didn't put in the energy it needs. Theirs is still an over-whelmingly competent production, with superb singing--one worth seeing of you lovePinafore, love Gilbert and Sullivan, or just love watching all those funny, cute Englishmen acting so very English. But then, the Loeb is sold out already. Ironically, enough people love Pinafore as a harmless trifle that it can be de-fanged with impunity. Who would want to scare away all those big middle-class audiences by staging any "language strong," anyway...