Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Preplanned cities are big business for the English Government. Ten small towns are growing into old communities around London. Twelve new towns of 100,000 each are going up on the outskirts of Birmingham. Liverpool, Glasgow, and Edinburgh. Now, Milton Keynes, a city of 250,000, is on the Government's drawing boards...
...fastidious music for the eternal amusement of the world's musicologists. Now ordinary fans can snicker along, for this album provides everything from Leek mich am Arsch! Goethe . . . (Kiss My Behind! Goethe . . . ) to Liebes Mandel, wo ist's Bandel? (Lovey-Dovey, Where's My Glovey?). The English translations may be rough, but then so are the sentiments; Norman Luboff directs a crew of singers who appropriately sound as if they had rehearsed in a rathskeller...
...British typographer, designer of Times New Roman, one of the world's most widely used type faces; after a long illness; in London. Compiler of several definitive histories of typography, Morison set out in 1932 to develop for the London Times, a type face that would be "masculine, English, direct, simple, and absolutely free from faddishness." His design was all he promised, and was adopted by the Times and literally thousands of other publications, including TIME...
...works, Nadav makes effortless and intelligent conversation. His English grammar is only fair, but the range of his vocabulary is astounding. ("I learned to speak from foreigners," says Nadav. "From foreign girls," chimes in a friend, and Nadav only smiles...
...hard to put your finger on the differences between Yael and her kibbutz contemporaries. She is a little more friendly, perhaps more gentle. Her English is better, a tribute to the cities' superior schools...