Word: englishes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rise of the American feminist movement has created a respectable place in historical circles for the study of women, and even a demand for popular literature on the subject. For Her Own Good by Barbara Ehrenreich and Deirdre English should be a bestseller in this market. A comprehensive, readable history of Americanwomen and their integration into a male-dominated society, the book reinterprets traditional American history, serving it up in a palatable form to the more or less liberated woman of the seventies. Subtitled 150 Years of the Experts' Advice to Women, the study recounts not only what women...
...experience has been that Harvard and Radcliffe students do not, generally, find the academics at English universities all that heavy going although most of them do experience initial feelings of inferiority in the face of their very articulate and--as Mr. Marsden indicates--well-prepared British classmates. I have no statistics, but I would be very surprised if our students showed significantly worse on Tripos or Finals than the natives, or worked any harder preparing for them...
...reputation as a researcher and writer grew; T.S. Eliot sought his articles on Marxism, presented with a historian's detachment; W.H. Auden befriended him. By the '50s he was famous. Today Rowse laces his conversation with recollections of the mighty: "Eleanor and Franklin Roosevelt spoke much clearer English than Winston, who had a speech impediment as a child and always lisped somewhat...
...create the illusion of three-dimensionality, rather like the great tracks through the forests of Snow White and Bambi. Disney's craftsmen might have made better visual definitions of characters-it's sometimes hard to tell one cottontail from another -but the vocal characterizations by such English worthies as Ralph Richardson, Harry Andrews and Denholm Elliott are never confusing. The English pastoral tradition, both in painting and hi literature, informs the movie in a subliminal way that is very attractive. It even makes the largest miscue, a dreadful pop song called Bright Eyes sung by Art Garfunkel, almost...
...Anatoli Efros to stage the play, and his work is a marvel. Communicating through interpreters, he seems to have established an intuitive rapport with the cast. The actors get under the skin of an alien culture and, with seamless ensemble work, translate Russian characters and responses in supple body English...