Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that misery loves company, it is easy to see how French audiences might take the play to their hearts, not to mention their livers. A nation of hypochrondiacs might well find it plausible and even grimly amusing to watch Dr. Knock make the well ill. But Boston's large English-speaking sector will no doubt find it a silly bore...
Members of the International Seminar will read poetry which they have written at the Seminar's weekly open forum, 8 p.m. Wednesday in Emerson 105. English translations of all the poems will be distributed before the readings...
...visit, the general will float grandly up the Saint Lawrence River on the French cruiser Colbert, motor from Quebec to Montreal, greeting thousands of French Canadians along the way, then look over Expo 67. Only afterward, despite the Canadian governments entreaties, will he condescend to touch down at the English-speaking capital of Ottawa...
Roberto has made other Brazilians appreciate them too. As a boy, he saw the wealthy cariocas fill their gardens with English rosebushes. Sent to Berlin for medical treatment in 1928, he was astonished to discover that botanical gardens in Berlin treasured their greenhouse supplies of Brazilian flora. He returned to Rio, attracted the attention of Le Corbusier, co-architect of the revolutionary Ministry of Education building. Roberto landscaped its gardens with all-Brazilian plants, flowers and grasses. Subsequently he laid out the gardens for most of the major parks in Brazil. The "Monumental Axis" in Brasilia and the immense Flamengo...
Elko alienated Ruthenian traditionalists by requesting that priests also use English in the liturgy. Although Byzantine churches traditionally adopt the language of their native country, many conservatives in his diocese indignantly protested the holding of services in English as well as in European tongues. The bishop likewise alienated conservatives by removing the iconostasis, or screen, which separates the altar from the faithful in Oriental churches, and by shortening Easter services from 4½ to 3½ hours. Elko's firm administrative methods caused further complaint; diocesan clergy accused him of being a ruthless autocrat, who was averse to discussing...