Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Magnus, the imaginary English king who tries to beat the democrats at their own game, is the character who teaches Shaw's lesson, and Kenneth Tigar makes a fine instructor. Tigar's Magnus flatters, cajoles, and bullies his barnyards of ministers and then, like an ironic lemur, sits back to watch them do just what he intended all along. Tigar knows how to get the most out of Shaw's wit--he is quick enough to maintain a rapid exchange, yet patient enough to let the lines do the job by themselves when the situation calls...
...carpentry to X-ray technology and zoology. A team of corpsmen installed the University of Malaya's first electronic computer; one is a game warden in Ethiopia; Gerald Brown, a volunteer from Douglas, Ariz., conducts Bolivia's National Symphony orchestra, and Lynn Meena's televised English lessons made her one of Iran's most popular performers. The majority teach, and the Corps has even sent blind volunteers abroad to teach the blind...
Kavanaugh poured out his scorn for canon law ("Dump it into the Tiber"), the Mass in English (which he called meaningless), and clerical celibacy. He admitted that he not only dates occasionally but also hopes eventually to marry. "I don't know how I, as a man, can find God and meaning without a close personal relationship with a woman," he said. Accused of being a trifle obsessed with sexual problems, Kavanaugh answered: "Everyone is hung...
...north and south of Liverpool, the English Government is building preplanned cities. These cities are intended to relieve the acute housing shortage in Liverpool and rejuvenate the surrounding depressed areas...
...cities are designed to eliminate "suburban sprawl" which threatens to gobble up too much of the limited English farm acreage. New town homes are built in highdensity clusters. Parklands are placed between neighborhoods or on the outskirts of town...