Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Concert tonight by members of the Summer School Chorus, John Ferris, Conductor. Program will include works of Schutz, Distler, and Poulenc, and a selection of English madrigals. 8:30 p.m. Lehman Hall. Free...
...Vladimir Nabokov. A long, lyric fairy tale about time, memory and the 83-year-long love affair of a half sister and half brother by the finest living writer of English fiction...
...less a climb than a rocket launching. In quick order The Time Machine, The War of the Worlds and other futuristic fantasies made Wells the English Jules Verne. He stirred the minds of his generation to science, the new possibility in their lives, and the paying public rewarded him with possibilities in his own life. Both prophet and audience shared a kind of mutual fulfillment-in Wells' phrase, "possessing joys not promised them at birth...
...altar Claude succumbs to a touch of Portnoy's complaint. He develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
...rich in resources has so little for its people. The answer lies in Brazil's history of foreign economic dominations, a history of successive one-product economies (sugar, gold, diamonds, rubber, coffee) developed by foreign capitalists and then subverted by fluctuations in the world market. Subjugated by Dutch, English, and American capital, the labor force (including African slaves) was shunted from state to state...