Word: englishings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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HADRIAN VII. Alec McCowen gives an elegant performance as Frederick William Rolfe, the English eccentric who imagined himself named Pope...
...addition to making a good cup of coffee) once had an English teacher who hated dogs very much, and who used to talk about how awful they were for several minutes of every class, and who used to shoot at dogs when they came onto his property in Cohasset, Massachusetts, where I lived as a youngster. And futhermore, since I was born, we've had a total of thirteen dogs in our family each one of which has, in turn, been run over by a car, and only a few of which I can remember the names of, including...
...English teacher's student, do hate dogs. But I hate them because I know. I am more at one with their (the dogs') existence than most dog buyers I've run into. If they truly knew what they were doing, they would never have gotten the dog for many reasons similar to those because of which they presumably passed up actual children...
...then sent copies of his protest to Greek newspapers. Boxed in by censorship, no editor printed it. Knowing the message would nonetheless surely reach the outside world, the government issued a 500-word countercharge notable only for its ineptness. Quoting "authoritative circles in Athens," the statement, issued in English as was Seferiades' own message, accused Seferiades of being a Communist agent. It also suggested that he had spoken "to counterbalance and neutralize the inexorable law of wear and tear and oblivion, which was a natural consequence of nothing but biological causes responsible for his intellectual barrenness and absence from...
Baby Love is a tacky little enterprise about a scheming English teen-ager named Luci (Linda Hayden). An unhappy and uninteresting hybrid of Lilith and Lolita, Luci is first seen putting on an exhibition of osculation for her delighted classmates, and things deteriorate-rather rapidly-from there. She comes home from school one day to discover that Mum (Diana Dors) has done herself in. Luci goes off to stay with one of Mum's old lovers (Keith Barren), a successful doctor whose opulent standard of living suggests that socialized medicine in Britain has not put much of a dent...